“The quantity of consonants in the English language is constant. If omitted in one place, they turn up in another. When a Bostonian ‘pahks’ his ‘cah’, the lost r’s migrate southwest, causing a Texan to ‘warsh’ his car.”
Anonymous
This is an optional course for the 3rd year students of the BA programme of English Philology at Vilnius University.
I do not teach this course in the autumn term of 2023.
Hedging and Beyond 