Language

Iowa town adopts Sanskrit as official language [jhi]

1. How do you pronounce "aunt"?

1. [a] as in "ah"
2. [ae] as in "ant"
3. [d] as in "caught"
4. I have the same vowel in "ah", "caught", and "aunt"
5. I pronounce it the same as "ain't"
6. I use [a/d] when referring to the general concept of an aunt, but [ae] when referring to a specific person by name.
7. I use [ae] when referring to the general concept of an aunt, but [a/d] when referring to a specific person by name.
8. other:

Insulting phrases for French, Spanish, and German [jhi]

Relative popularity of numbers (requires IE and lots o' RAM) [rre] (I used to write programs to count the 1s and 0s in computer memory)

The Alphabet Synthesis Machine [jhi]

A grammar of alphabets [jhi]

Count your keystrokes (I've typed 390,000 in ten days) [/.]

The meaning of "disfluencies" (particles like "um" and "uh")

Map of the world's languages, with phrases for 1..10 in each [jhi]

Hofstadter advocates different pronouns for blacks and whites (Satire, but he or she makes a good point.)

"Nushu" = a secret form of writing used by Chinese women

Displaying all the words of a book at a glance [gnat]