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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...

CW: mention of public indecency behaviour in the tweet linked and below, before we get to the linguistics.  This reply to a tweet of Derren ...

 Please enjoy this nice linguistic observation made by someone on twitter:  The pronunciation of “plantain” When a word has the suffix “-tai...

Just a quick one this week to point out a nice non-standard usage of the word extremely . The context was as follows:  I extremely need a br...

Today in strange agency verb use:  Screenshot of a tweet saying "Yeah if you're standing in front of a Bentley at a Bentley dealers...

The Conversation tweeted about an article way back in 2018, when things like the World Cup still happened, and included the phrase could hav...

Spotted in the Duke of Cumberland loos in Whitstable this weekend, this instruction on how to flush the toilet: Press hard Both buttons ...

You might have noticed that people yeet  things now. It's a specific type of throwing. Here's a helpful hint I saw on twitter this w...

Which of the following is correct?  (1) Who runs the world? Girls! (2) Who run the world? Girls!  If your judgements match mine, you pi...

We were in Brussels just before Christmas for a little holiday, and we visited a couple of lambic breweries while we were there. One of the ...

Queen Oona from Disenchantment In a dramatic departure from blogging about the Simpsons, I'm blogging about Disenchantment, the lat...

There's been a bit of a flurry of discussion about the use of pronouns for nonbinary people in linguist twitter lately, because of a blo...

There's a Simpsons episode where Marge is 'admiring' a sculpture made by Groundskeeper Willie out of kids' braces. It's ...

In my MA syntax class this week we were talking about innit  and how it's going from being a tag question to a kind of discourse particl...

The Oxford Times published a whinge about the prefix super-   recently (don't click the link; you'll get the idea from this post and...

A while back, I wrote a post about what appeared to be a causative alternation with the verb wait : I said They wait you in the bookshop . ...

It's a well-known fact that home  has no preposition when it occurs with go : I went (*to) home (The asterisk inside the brackets me...

This is the best thing I've seen today. Maybe all week. I present.... 'lol' used as a transitive verb! *warning* If you watch...

There's a post about Guardians of the Galaxy. It's a cute story: blockbuster film helps child appreciate slash believe in self. But...

I'm currently reading English for the Natives by Harry Ritchie. I might try and do a proper review sometime, but for now here's a sn...