linguistlaura

Linguists are liable to stop mid-conversation to write down something they or their interlocutor said, if it was linguistically interesting....

Google sometimes asks me questions, via my phone, about places I've been to so that it can improve its information about businesses when...

One of the pubs I go to in Margate has these awful seaside postcard illustrations on the walls of the toilet. These are pretty tame, usually...

There's a game for various iDevices called The Simpsons: Tapped Out, in which you have to rebuild Springfield. It's good; I'm o...

It was my friend's birthday the other day so we met in a pub for lunch, which is the accepted correct way to celebrate a birthday. Anoth...

I have a pub quiz team, and one of the quizzes we go to has a bonus question which is worth five points if you get it right, but you lose fi...

I snapped this graffito in the pub the other day: I don't know who Helen Willis is, but I like the graffito. It doesn't just say, ...