Not a typo
Language Log 2025-04-07
Photograph of a scrumptious birthday cake presented to me on March 25, 2023:
Made in a New York Chinese pastry shop and presented to me by a student with the given name Zihan.
Selected readings
- "Victor Mair's birthday book" (3/29/13)
- "'Happy Birthday' melody formed from tones" (11/5/22)
- "Recognizing half of a character and half of a word" (5/2/21) — detailed discussion of the phonological, lexicographical, morphological, graphical, and other reasons why the character 菡 is customarily mispronounced as hán rather than hàn