linguistlaura

This advert appeared in my workplace recently: It offers laundry services under the line 'Lazy to do Laundry?'. This is not qui...

In the book '48 hours' by J Jackson Bentley (a fairly crappy crime thriller), forensic corpus linguistics turned up. In the book, a ...

I can't now remember where I heard the phrase 'informant incompetence', but it's a slightly cruel way of describing a perenn...

Those of us who are interested in dialect syntax but don't make it their business to conduct experiments into it are always on the liste...

George Orwell created a new form of English for his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four called Newspeak. Its aim was to reduce the ability of the pe...

There's a new book out which I haven't read yet. However, that never stopped anyone posting an Amazon review, so I'll throw my ...