Linguistically Speaking

Prince Charles's got an awesome reading voice!

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer -
A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe;
My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.

Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North
The birth place of Valour, the country of Worth;
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.

Farewell to the mountains high cover'd with snow;
Farewell to the straths and green valleys below;
Farewell to the forrests and wild-hanging woods;
Farwell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods.

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer
Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe;
My heart's in the Highlands, whereever I go.

Robert Burns

If ever you need to convince students that proper pronounciation is important: Watch this :-) (starts at 1:00).

Verbing weirds language - but it also funs it!

A curvaceous young phoneme called schwa
Said "I never feel strong. It's bizarre!
I'm retired and meek
And I always sound weak
But in frequency counts - I'm the star!"

love this!

To study the staging of an "Ugly Duckling to Beautiful Swan" transformation:

Susan Boyle in "Britain's Got Talent"
(Embedding unfortunately disabled)

(Again, works with students, too)

"The mill-wright on my right thinks it right that some conventional rite should symbolize the right of every man to write as he pleases" (Lashley, 1951).

Retouchiertes Titelbild,

eindrücklich und schultauglich.