La langue française est tellement bien faite qu'on ne sait jamais ce que "vendredi prochain" signifie

Publication news #1: I’m delighted to share this multimodal and slightly unconventional piece written in response to @JFDavidson1964’s poetry collection A Commonplace The Poetry Business. The article comprises a discussion about A Commonplace, a translation & a translation commentary

Publication news #2: My review of Alice Bell, Sam Browse, Dr. Alison Gibbons and David Peplow’s ‘Style and Reader response: Minds, media, methods’ is now out on LINGUIST List. You can read it here: linguistlist.org/issues/32/32-2…

I’ve been reading Common Sense by Thomas Paine so men say that I’m intense or I’m insane. You want a revolution? I want a revelation

Wish you were going back to school for linguistics this semester? Know someone who's starting a linguistics degree? Here's a long list of podcasts, videos, blog posts, and other entirely free internet learning resources! allthingslinguistic.com/post/164874346…

Si vous parlez français (première ou deuxième langue), merci de partager et de prendre part au sondage ci-dessous. Amélie Doche, Sarah Eichhorn, et moi-même étudions l’emploi des pronoms “tu” et “vous” par les locuteurs français. Merci! hud.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1N…

L'omelette implique-t-elle l'existence d'un plat plus gros nommé "omele" ? (Presque, le mot vient de l'ancien français amelette, altération de alemelle, forme avec agglutatination de l'article du mot lemelle, variante de lamelle, du latin lamella, diminutif de lamina "lame" !)

The Irish for November is Samhain.

The real victim of all this "Sam Hain is the Lord of Death" malarkey is this nice young man who never bothered anyone.

Five Possible Locations Fungie Is Hiding Out In waterfordwhispersnews.com/2020/10/25/fiv…

A free pre-Halloween poetry party - aka The Poetry Toolkit Conference - will take place in Coventry on Sat 30 Oct between 10am and 3pm. Join WritingWestMidlands & Nine Arches Press! Full programme and tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-poetry-t…

if you're reading a book and a mysterious creature comes up and starts reading beside you... you've been blessed by the Book Beast

Charms hidden in food have a long tradition of casting roles & divination. Before 20thC Christmas pudding charms, beautiful French ceramic charms like these were baked in Twelfth Night cake (Fevres courtesy Ivan Day) #food #FolkloreThursday