We have a new event (the first of its kind) coming up in April. It's an online revision conference for AQA A Level Eng Lang Paper 2 and it will feature three excellent guest speakers, along with top tips to approach questions about change & diversity.
www.englishandmedia.co.uk/conferences/...
Also, are the rules made by the same people who decide what random item you may or may not need to remove on any given day at UK airports?
How do publisher style guides get made/decided? I'm writing something in which all the '%' symbols need to be changed to 'per cent'. I'm not complaining, I'm just intrigued as to how that choice was discussed and decided. Genuine question.
New eggcorn alert!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
Incredibly sad news. Debbie was such a huge inspiration to so many of us. A brilliantly clever and supportive academic colleague, and just a fun person to spend time with
“each time my university friends jokingly echoed my Leeds-accented “no” with a noise that is perhaps best approximated as “nerhhh”, I found myself undergoing elocution conditioning.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... by @robynvinter.bsky.social
Good morning Manchester
An unnecessarily tricky consonant cluster
A view of Manchester from Bolton on this morning’s dog walk
I’ve written a long blog here that comes out of various things that I’ve worked on with other people this term. It’s about accents... again! Sorry, not sorry.
englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/pride-a...
I think she would, yes 😁
Quick walk between meetings*
(*my meetings, not Patty’s)
What’s that? You’re stuck for gift ideas for a friend or relative who:
a) is intrigued by accents;
b) thinks some ways of speaking are better than others;
d) thinks Susie Dent, David Crystal, Ian McMillan, Chris Mason, and Simon Mayo know a good book when they see it?!
I’m listening
Liking the updated announcement on my train from London to Manchester:
“If you see anything suspicious or dodgy looking…”
A agree, it’s so good!
A fascinating book. Totally engaging #KillingThatcher
Promotional graphic for the Grammar Girl podcast bonus episode titled ‘Languaging and our fluid speaking identities.’ The image shows Mignon Fogarty and guest Rob Drummond smiling against a green background with a fingerprint pattern. The top includes a red label reading ‘BONUS’ and icons for Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and QDT.
Did you know people who stammer can often sing without any difficulty?
Or that bilingual friends might use English when being funny but use their native language when discussing politics?
@robdrummond.bsky.social delights us with stories of "languaging" today!
APPLE: bit.ly/4ojU0Ac
We still have places on this course which also features @robdrummond.bsky.social
Hardback book with a green cover and pink, stencilled writing, reading LANGUAGE AND LGBTQ+ YOUTH: ANALYSING MARGINALISED IDENTITIES THROUGH AN INTERNATIONAL LENS by Lucy Jones. The cover picture is an abstract image with shapes in various rainbow-like colours.
It feels really, really good to finally hold the hard copy of this in my hands! Years of work in one shiny new book 😊 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/language-...
Local dialect advertising #Bolton #GreaterManchester #Lancashire
Don’t worry. I spoke to BBC Newsround and said everything was fine 😁
Don’t worry. I spoke to BBC Newsround and said everything was fine 😁
Huge improvement to the 100ml rule
"Holliday...was running a marathon recently, some kids were holding a sign at 6.7-miles...she yelled “six, seven” to their delight. “For a brief moment” she says, “in our lonely, isolated, algorithm-driven world, I connected with those kids on something we shared" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
😂😂
A good thing, surely?
Nonce will always remain an awkward example of UK English homonymy
