What To Do If You See a Queue in a Pub

Thought of framing this as 'stages of grief' because I think for 90% of people in this country this is *exactly* how it'll play out, with the sad inevitability of processing a trauma

[sorry reposted this cos I missed out a panel]

🧑‍🎤 Singing researchers find cross-cultural patterns in music & #language
mpi.nl/news/singing-r…
via MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics

When people learn I’m Belgian they often start talking about chocolate, waffles and fries. I think it’s innocent small talk and a way to connect

Study that uses 'quality of word embeddings derived from dictionary examples, as a proxy for downstream performance' finds Oxford dict better than WordNet, but ChatGPT better than all...
orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/1681…

Perfectly Common BrE Words the @NYTimesGames Spelling Bee Has Denied Me: An Occasional Series

INVIGILATING

Now added to the blog list: …paratedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2023/04/nyt-sp…

Old post proctor/invigilate: …paratedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2008/07/invigi…

#OTD 101 years ago, Victoria Fromkin (1923-2000) was born 🥳 Expert on speech errors, founder of the Fromkin Speech Error Database and a specialist in the speech of feral children. An award of the Linguistic Society of America is named after her.

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histxl #WomenInLinguistics

You could say the Icelandic language's motto is 'We have a very good old word for that.' Listen to the full episode ⬇️
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I'll be giving my first non-linguistic talk at this one! What's it about? You'll only find out if you're there!

New article in preprint 'Dynamics of English gratitude expression...' led by Jilan Wei.

cambridge.org/core/journals/…

🏥Are you 'in hospital' or 'in the hospital?'

📖 Back in Babel No4, Lynne Murphy looks at why we say what we say

🔗 Read the full article at cloud.3dissue.com/18743/41457/10…

Thought about this classic #map today and figured I’ll reshare it. It shows what is on the opposite side of the ocean (viewed from the Americas). Source: buff.ly/3QAa3vR

Separated by a common language. Crossing guard vs lollipop lady. Sometimes BrEng is just too cute. Lynne Murphy

Song from the end of the line:

I never thought I'd be so bored in / the pub with the girl from Morden

Me: But that IS a word, spellchecker.
Spellchecker: Shut up, Linguist.

Ben Yagoda's blogs analysing Britishisms that are infiltrating US English has found a publisher! The book is titled 'Gobsmacked'

Congratulations Ben Yagoda

'Gobsmacked!' on Its Way notoneoffbritishisms.com/2024/04/29/gob…

My ex would jump down people's throats if he heard them getting words and phrases wrong, so I was constantly walking on egg-cups.

Wait a minute. Have I been doing linguistics wrong this WHOLE TIME?

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