I have no idea who Scalia was. Isn’t that the thing that people call themselves when they are furries but with reptiles?
You’re thinking of scalies. Scalia is a quantity that has magnitude but not direction.
You’re thinking of scalars. Scalia is an opera house in Milan.
You’re thinking of La Scala. Scalia is is a form of thermal burn resulted from heated fluids such as boiling water or steam.
You’re thinking of scalding. Scalia are subjective internal experiences.
You’re thinking of qualia. Scalia is the region of Northern Europe consisting mainly of Norway, Sweden, and Finland.
You’re thinking of Scandinavia. Scalia is a company that makes trucks.
You’re thinking of Scania. Scalia is a a wizard and a Snatcher in the gang led by Fenrir Greyback in the Harry Potter universe.
You’re thinking of Scabior. Scalia was the guise assumed by Peter Pettigrew in his capacity as an Animagus,also in the Harry Potter universe.
You’re thinking of Scabbers. Scalia is a type of triangle where no two sides have the same length.
You’re thinking of Scalene. A Scalia is a method of stealing people’s valuables or money through elaborate falsehoods, deception and acting.
you’re thinking of scams. scalia is the bone that connects the humerus to the clavicle.
You’re thinking of scapula. Scalia is a small knife with a thin, sharp blade that is used in surgeries and dissections.
You’re thinking of a scalpel.Scalia is an abnormal lateral curvature of the spine.
You’re thinking of scoliosis. Scalia is the author of “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.”
You’re thinking of a Scamander. Scalia is a flat tool used for flipping food.
You’re thinking of a spatula. Scalia is any one of numerous species of saltwater clams or marine bivalve mollusks in the taxonomic family Pectinidae.
You’re thinking of a scallop. Scalia is the eighth astrological sign in the tropic Zodiac, and one of the three water signs, along with Cancer and Pisces.
You’re thinking of Scorpio… Scalia is a vegetable in the onion family, with long green stalks, usually added to a dish for flavor.
You’re thinking of scallion. Scalia is the ship name for Scott McCall and Malia Tate from Teen Wolf.
You’re thinking of Scott/Malia. Scalia is the primary antagonist in the He-Man cartoons. He wants to seize control of Castle Grayskull, the cultural and political stronghold of Eternia, so that he can conquer the universe and shape it to accord with his own evil vision.
You’re thinking of Skeletor. Scalia is a method of using oars to propel watercraft. In modern crew competitions, it refers to two-oared rowing.
You’re thinking of sculling. Scalia are green-skinned, shape-shifting antagonists in the Marvel comic universe.
You’re thinking of Skrulls. Scalia is the skeptic; Mulder is the believer.
You’re thinking of Scully. Scalia was a villain in the excellent and under-appreciated scifi original series Farscape. He perused John Crichton across the uncharted territories for his knowledge on wormhole technology.
You’re think of Scorpius. Scalia is the electronic music producer and DJ who just won a grammy.
You’re thinking of Skrillex. Scalia is the sportscaster for the LA Dodgers.
You’re thinking of Vin Scully. Scalia is a traditional mush of pork scraps, cornmeal, and spices popular with the Pennsylvania Dutch .
You’re thinking of Scrapple. Scalia is the big, shaggy monster from Monsters, Inc.
You’re thinking of Sully. Scalia is an itchy skin condition cause by mites burrowing under the skin.
You’re thinking of scabies. Scalia is that guy who landed a plane in the Hudson after some geese flew into the engine.
You’re thinking of Captain Sullenberger. Scalia are the pages with the bubbles you fill in when you take standardized tests.
You’re thinking of a scantron. Scalia is a liquor in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, made from apples (well, mostly apples.)
You’re thinking of scumble. Scalia is the act of determining meter in poetry.
One thing I think a lot about is what the voices of characters in Going to Weather sound like and I never have a solid answer. The accents of 1820s coastal Massachusetts would be so different. Would they be non-rhotic? IDK?
I’m looking at American poetry from the general time period and general region to put things together. ‘Scowl’ has been rhymed with ‘roll’, ‘move’ rhymed with ‘love’, ‘coast’ and ‘lost’, ‘pain’ and ‘again’.
It’s almost BROGUE-LIKE.
If there are any historical linguists here who can educate me I am all for it.
I was talking to my coworker last night about regionalisms and accents etc
he jokingly was like “oh so do you say ‘cah’ instead of ‘car’?” and I responded “well more like lobstah and hahbah and other words I haven’t had cause to use much since I lived there” and he actually straight up could not understand me until I translated it to ‘lobster and harbor’
are you a new englander??
I was going to answer sarcastically but I realized some ppl might actually have missed how much I have FEELINGS about Massachusetts all over the place on this blog so yes! The Bay State is the home of my heart and soul, despite not having lived there in seven years now. I’ve also lived in NH and have close family ties to Maine and grew up on the RI border so I’m more loyal to Providence than Boston tbh. Also Vermont is utterly charming. Basically I love New England with worrying devotion, top to bottom, and will not shut up about it.
Yesss I think I haven’t been following you for very long and I missed it! Sorry! I am very British and haven’t been to New England but it looks super beautiful and I lo o ove the accents because they are Pure and Good. (my most recent discovery was William Daniels’s Boston Brahmin accent in the movie 1776 which made me go ‘why can’t everyone talk like that all the time’)
Having grown up in New England myself (and, er, never left) one of the most interesting things I find about the accents is how they’re not all-pervasive. Like, not every person who grows up in Boston has a Boston accent. Not every person who grows up in Rhode Island has a Rhode Island accent. (Just as well, since it’s kind of hideous.) You hear old fogeys (mostly men) in New Hampshire with really pronounced NH accents but generally no one younger than like 60. I think a lot of it has to do with people moving in from other regions but that can’t account for all of it. I wonder if it’s a linguistic thing that’s ever been studied, or has a name, regional accents that not everyone from or living in that region has.
I think in the young people who seem to not have regional accents most of the time, it’ll come out when they’re around older folks who do have them! I know that I sound pretty neutral but when I go visit my family back home always I spend a few days afterwards sounding Very Very Bostonian, which… isn’t even my natural accent (I’m from New Bedford, MA so it ought to be more a terrible mix of the RI accent and an Azorean Portuguese accent applied to the poor defenseless English language)
…Also this one time a former roommate was watching The Departed in the living room and I happened to overhear a bit of it and then couldn’t get rid of my accent for a full day, which they all thought was hilarious.