[NEWS] Four Language Log links: Chinese, mare, Ukrainian, Yorkshire

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• Victor Mair at Language Log takes a look at the many and varied colloquialisms in the different varieties of Chinese.


• Robert Hymes writes a guest post at Language Log examining the word "mare" and its relatives across language families.


• Mark Liberman at Language Log considers how the name of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, is to be pronounced.


• Victor Mair at Language Log takes a look at the English dialect of Yorkshire.