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Monday 25 July 2022
Getting drank
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Beavertown Brewery currently have these billboard adverts up, with the slogan Out of this world beer. Drank on Earth : Photo: @nicholasd on...
Monday 18 July 2022
Performing a flying fuck
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At our students' graduations this week, a colleague told me about a (non-canonical) ballet step which, because of the particular way tha...
Friday 8 July 2022
Despatches from Barcelona
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I’m just back from Barcelona. If you haven’t been, I recommend it, it was great! Here’s a selection of linguistic observations. I spoke mos...
Wednesday 4 May 2022
Is a great deal more than a lot?
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I'm sure this survey made it clear what the options meant, but to me, 'a lot' and 'a great deal' mean exactly the same t...
Monday 25 April 2022
Going places in Welsh and English
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I'm learning Welsh on Duolingo. Most people in our department are doing a language on it, in some cases for practical purposes but for m...
Monday 18 April 2022
It wasn't then, but it was now
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Linguists are liable to stop mid-conversation to write down something they or their interlocutor said, if it was linguistically interesting....
Monday 11 April 2022
At last, someone has written about Wordle!
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I've held off on blogging about Wordle, because everyone else did it, and because I didn't have anything particular to say. People t...
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