The poster, the logo, this is just perfection

Looking forward to being involved in this again - always a great day speaking with A-Level teachers at our CPD workshop and spreading the linguistics love 💙

📋 If you have a spare 5-10 mins, a student on my undergraduate LVC module is conducting a survey about attitudes towards youth language use in the UK: forms.gle/N6vmLQ4EZf4UEB… RTs appreciated!

I’ve got something in my eye 🥹

This is going straight in my sociolinguistics lecture on language change + lexical variation

Quick, new cow sociolinguistics has just dropped: doi.org/10.1017/S00474… 🐮

In the last two weeks I’ve now been: (1) Promoted to senior lecturer 🧓 (2) Asked for my ID to buy paracetamol 👶 The duality of man

Natalie Braber and I have published in an article in the Conversation, building on work with George Bailey and Meredith O'Hara-Brown published in EWW here- jbe-platform.com/content/journa…, showing that what we think we know about ‘posh’ words is all wrong!

More coverage of our U-non-U paper George Bailey Natalie Braber Meredith O'Hara-Brown

Not quite the heights of last year’s 45.2k, but I’m nothing if not consistent. Perks of having a long commute 🎧

🎁 Struggling for gift ideas this festive season? Consider giving someone the gift of knowledge, and sending them my latest journal article: the fourth and final study from my PhD—on ternary variation in (ing)—is out now in LVC! CUP Linguistics 📖➡️ doi.org/10.1017/S09543…

📣Save the date: This year's York English Language Toolkit workshop will be on *Friday 11th July*, with the option to attend in person in York or online. FREE registration will open by the start of the summer term!

<drum roll>... FREE registration for the 2025 York English English Language Toolkit is now open! The outline programme and registration link are at: englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/workshops The workshop is fully hybrid, so join us in York or online!