Looking for the final few participants to get this finished, can you help out? 🙏🏻

We had a lot of help making this episode!

Thank you to Bethany Gardner for making the vowel plots! Listen to our full interview with them here: twitter.com/lingthusiasm/s…

Also special thanks to Rachel Burdin and Rory Turnbull for consultation on phonetics and instruments!

Taking a brief pause from my social media hiatus to say that I'll be in Paris at the end of the month talking about phonetic prominence at the ALOES colloquium on spoken English: aloesfrance.wordpress.com/actualites/pro…

Happy you got your pension back? Me too. But if you didn't join us on the picket lines for the >2 months lost salary it cost your colleagues to achieve this, then please do consider joining the union and standing with us next time.

🚨🚨Fellow parents, please be careful this Hallowe'en!🚨🚨

I just found an INFIX inside one of my children's chocolate bars 😱😱🤬🤬😨😨

Rory Turnbull 👁️ 👁️
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Students discussing the IPA: 'to make the vowels nasal, you give them a moustache'

Not me trying to figure out what the heptapod aliens are telling us with the solar eclipse

#aliens #eclipse #AnnularEclipse #SolarEclipse #language #linguistics #Arrival

This year's Annual Meeting on Phonology is fully online and free to attend! amp2023.info

So let us try, as an experiment, peace, and if the results of peace are bad, then we can choose if it would be better to go back to the old state of war! Abdu’l-Baha

Literally just got a second hand whiteboard into my office today so this is a little on the nose

Etymology of the day is ‘poppycock’, meaning ‘nonsense’. It came from the Dutch ‘pappekak’, meaning either ‘doll’s excrement’ or ‘soft shit’.

My family has been taken to Gaza.

We don't know their medical condition, we know that if my uncle isn't released soon he could die, he has a degenerative disease and needs treatment.

They are European citizens. I need anyone with any contacts to get in touch with me ASAP.

“But really it’s not the way people speak that needs adjusting. It’s the way we as a society listen that has to shift.” Rob Drummond decodes accent prejudice
theguardian.com/global/2023/oc…

No way can you convince me that _smaragd_ is a real German word and not something straight outta the Silmarillion

Happy October the 3rd to all who celebrate it.

My tribute to the Late Prof. David Jowitt (my academic mentor) published today in The Guardian.

Jowitt's work shaped Nigerian English scholarship and formed the bedrock of my own work.

theguardian.com/world/2023/oct…

I think this is a good thread

This is so important. Voting yes isn't about saying you want to strike, or you will strike, it's about securing your right *to* strike. It's saying you haven't given up. How to use the mandate is a discussion to have later; without that mandate there's no discussion at all.