All set up for the Fun Palace event at Lancashire Archives today! Why not come down to Preston to find out more about the wonderful world of Lancashire Dialect? 😀

Amazing recitals in Lancashire dialect by Sid Calderbank and Joy Hunter at Lancashire Archives. Listen out carefully for different variants of definite article reduction! Lancs Voices Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni Lancaster University Phonetics Lab @clairelnance Keri Nicholson

Essential oils have a wide range of uses in the home, from candles to beauty products, but did you know they can also cause harm to our cats? Most essential oils are toxic to cats, and some oil diffusers shouldn’t be used by cat owners. Learn more: spr.ly/CatsAndEssenti… 🕯️

Loving the fact that our first Lancaster University Phonetics Lab meeting of the year includes lots of photos of our cats! ❤️🐈🐈‍⬛ #Linguisticats Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni

The good natured spats between Orkney Library and Shetland Library brighten up my timeline 😂

Word of the day is ‘hibernacle’ (18th century): a place to which an animal/human can retreat entirely for the winter months.

Crittlecronks!

More Words for the Weekend 🥳 Choose your champion 💫 A B C D

I am feeling v prickly about the decline in hedgehogs. Please read this simple advice to do your bit. Hedgehogs can easily die if you don't check your bonfires carefully before lighting them, so please do that.

More Words for Halloween Week! 👻 Pick your winner ⭐️ A B C D

Fantastic news! 😀

We're still really keen to interview Yorkshire miners to record and preserve Yorkshire pit talk! Please email me at: [email protected] to get involved! :)

I’m a fully paid up thermopot ☺️🫖☕️

Completed Sighted Guide training with Guide Dogs today. Really valuable experience which brings home some of the difficulties blind and partially sighted people face in all aspects of their daily lives.

New Week, New Words 🤓 #WritingPrompts Pick your winner ⭐️ A B C D (Follow for more)

Antifreeze is a threat to cats. Keep it out of reach and clean up spills immediately. Read our full guide and learn the signs of poisoning to look out for: spr.ly/AntifreezePois… ❄️

Crumpsy!

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Really helpful training course on carrying out oral history interviews with Oral History Society at the British Library yesterday. Lovely to meet up with Xinyi Zhao and Takayuki Nagamine / 長峯貴幸 afterwards too! 😀NW Consortium DTP Lancaster University Phonetics Lab Keri Nicholson Lancashire Archives Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni

3 days after Xmas and we have our first unwanted Xmas present purchased for children off the Internet, due to the fact the owner can't deal with the kitten pooing! We will pair Sasha up and find her a home where its acceptable for kittens to go to the toilet. 1/2