Wonderful weather to be finishing my #ICAME45 talk in 🇪🇸

More History of English in Room 1! Next up: Beth Beattie talking about religious vocabulary in the sixteenth-century, but this time in Scotland. Fascinating, really!

A very, very fascinating project has been keeping Amanda Thomas, Claire Etty & Kate Wild occupied! They are developing The Oxford Corpus of Historical English. Sounds phenomenal!

Promising early results in Ewan D. Hannaford & Marc Alexander. "Collecting dialects: Institutional collections, community archives, and linguistic diversity." #ICAME45

We will remember them.

It has come to my attention that in Norway “up and not crying” is a fairly common response to “how are you” and I demand the rest of us adopt this immediately

It’s with great sadness that my Auntie Cathy (Rutherford) has very suddenly passed away this week. Born in Glasgow my Auntie Cathy was a trade unionist to the core and remained politically active her whole life. This famous clip shows you exactly where she stood.

I'm delighted to say that my entry for Marie Stewart, countess of Mar is included in this month's update of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography National Biography. Finally, she takes her place alongside other #earlymodernwomen! My first published article! 🥳oxforddnb.com/newsitem/835/w….

#RIP dad 💔

We have a new, open MOOC for all things AI, ethics and academic integrity. The MOOC guides students through the practical use of AI/GenAI tools, the ethical considerations around using AI, and the key considerations of academic integrity and rigour. coursera.org/learn/generati…

Chris Gilmour A very useful survey! The key issue is that the catalogue metadata often doesn’t recognise Scots as a separate label, or Scots wasn’t recorded as the language of a publication when the underlying paper catalogues were produced. It’s a systemic issue #catalogues #Scots

The 46th ICAME conference will take place at Vilnius University (Lithuania) on 17-21 June 2025 at the Department of English Philology in Vilnius and the call for papers and workshops is out now! The conference website will be available soon at icame46.flf.vu.lt

An affa lang time in the makin... we hope ye can mak it alang an MAK yer vyce heard... it's nae affen we get the chance tae come igither tae move forrit as a community. So let's dae it..! …storytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:5784…

Thanks to everyone who came along to our ELL75 event on Friday! It was an amazing day and really great to see so many of you, with all the connections to ELL past, present and future. Here's to another 75!

Earlier this year, our University of Glasgow Grounds Team planted Granny Smith and Braeburn apple trees outside the Fraser Building and University of Glasgow Library. 🍏🍎 The apples will be free for anyone to pick and enjoy. So far, we've got one growing - anyone fancy a small crumble? 🌱 #TeamUofG

My main takeaway from academia is that "Dr Awkward" is the perfect palindrome

Hope ye can jyne us at The Oor Vyce Gatiherin. A chance tae git thegither speak Scots, chat aboot the future and tak pairt in oor panel discussions and wirkshops. Tickets and mair info at: bit.ly/OVgaitherin

Academics will have a 2 hour conversation about how busy they both are that ends in them agreeing to co-write something new

la existencia de la hamburguesa implica dialécticamente la existencia de la hamproletaria

Delighted to announce the programme of our 14th triennial conference English at Ulster in collaboration with Ulster-Scots Agency !! Join us in Belfast 29-30 November - register here: ulsterscotscollectors.com/languages-scot… #FRLSU2024