If anybody fancies going to see Oh Mary! on Wednesday (11 March), we just listed our tickets on twickets:

www.twickets.live/app/block/76...

My fellow speakers are @tonywilliams.bsky.social from Northumbria and Anne Fulrong from the University of Prince Edward Island

MLA Toronto 2026 In January 2026, two Northumbria colleagues, Billy Clark and Tony Williams will take part in a special session on ‘Producing and Evaluating Style’ at the Modern Language Association (ML…

I'm looking forward to our session at the #MLA26 MLA (Modern Language Association) Convention in Toronto

northumbriaenglish.org/2026/01/03/m...

We've just advertised a 12-month research fellowship at Northumbria (a corpus-based diachronic project on words for 'yes' and 'no' in European languages)

Please share with anybody you know who might be interested

work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...

#linguistics #research #postdoc

Babel: Enter our Young Writers' Competition

✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could win...

📖 Publication in Babel (Spring 2026)!
📚 A year's subscription!
📘 Babel's Linguistic Lexicon book!

📜 Guidelines at babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Advert-Young-Writers-Competition-No54.pdf

I had a great time at English Grammar Day today

⁦northumbriaenglish.org/2025/07/07/english-gramm...

A great bunch of people and lots of good conversations about language, spelling, variation and change, attitudes, health communication, and grammar in schools

Thanks, Rachele — great to see you today

The Discourse of Plastic Packaging The next speaker in our Institute of Humanities research seminar series is Professor Joanna Gavins from the University of Sheffield. The talk’s title is Every little ‘help’: understandin…

I'm looking forward to our Institute of Humanities research seminar research tomorrow!

@joannagavins.bsky.social on the discourse of plastic packaging

northumbriaenglish.org/2025/06/03/t...

Science and Storytelling Telling stories, communicating, getting your message out, making your voice heard...is it an art or a science? Could it be both? This evening we will be jo…

Just two tickets left for our (me and Tony Williams) pint of science event on the 21st of May!

(I'm not mentioning the outof)

pintofscience.co.uk/event/scienc...

Science and Storytelling Telling stories, communicating, getting your message out, making your voice heard...is it an art or a science? Could it be both? This evening we will be jo…

I'm looking forward to talking at @pintofscience inNewcastle again, this time with my @NorthumbriaUni colleague Tony Williams — only 8 tickets left! (it's a small room B--)

pintofscience.co.uk/event/scienc...

Polysemy, Pragmatics and Word Meaning The next speaker in our English Language and Linguistics research seminar series is Professor Robyn Carston from University College London The talk’s title is Polysemy, Pragmatics and Word Me…

I'm looking forward to our research seminar tomorrow!

northumbriaenglish.org/2025/02/18/p...

Language and Intangible Cultural Heritage The next speaker in our English Language and Linguistics research seminar series is Professor Natalie Braber from Nottingham Trent University The talk’s title is ‘Is our language part o…

Is language part of our cultural heritage? Join Professor Natalie Braber in our linguistics research seminar series on Wednesday 27 November to explore this and related questions

northumbriaenglish.org/2024/11/25/l...

Where will my English degree take me? Here is a collection of interviews with graduates from undergraduate English Language and Literature programmes discussing their current roles, how their undergraduate programmes relate to them, an…

And here:

northumbriaenglish.org/2024/05/31/w...

British Academy Summer Showcase UCGAL: University Council of General and Applied Linguistics

I have also been pointing visitors to these linguistics activities:

www.linguistics.ac.uk/british-acad...

I'm looking forward to our Northumbria open day today — lots of blackbirds were chirping with excitement as I got up B--)

I will be bringing back copies of @babelzine.bsky.social with me

Babel Lecture 2024 Babel Lecture 2024

What did Shakespeare sound like? I'm very much looking forward to the @Babelzine lecture tomorrow here at @NorthumbriaUni

#Shakespeare #English #language #literature #drama

www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

clearing has begun — I am at hame and on one end of the 'hotline'

I'm looking forward to the Northumbria and Newcastle postgraduate linguistics conference tomorrow — what a great job our students have done putting this together!

northumbriaenglish.org/exploring-li...

#linguistics #graduate #research

Come and see @lesley_jeffries talk on Poems, Prose and Politics in person or online at Northumbria tomorrow (28 February, 2pm UK time)

northumbriaenglish.org/2024/02/27/p...

#linguistics #literature ´poetry #prose #fiction

utterance of the week: ‘the roman empire IS my Roman Empire ’

postgraduate linguists! deadline extended for the newcastle and northumbria postgraduate conference — new deadline 29th February

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Naturally, I will be compiling a summary of the really useful tips and thoughts folk have shared with me as I've been asking for advice on teaching syntax this semester — it looks like this might become book-length B--)

It also brought back memories of Aix in 2022 when Tony previewed versions of the opening sentence to our audience at the PALA (Poetics and Linguistics Association) conference)

Cole the Magnificent Synopsis The orphan Cole wanders the world, seeking the fabled Underground City which he has promised his love Sigrid he will find. Somewhere else entirely, Niven sits in a palace garden taking lesson...

A definite holiday highlight for me was reading Cole the Magnificent by Tony Williams — clever, playful, and lots to think about for anybody interested in storytelling, poetry, song, dis/narration, and life B--)

www.saltpublishing.com/products/col...

I have memories of watching it in Aberdeen with my friend's sister and her baby during school lunchtimes — at a time when it seems it wasn't on TV in the UK (I trust the facts more than my memory, of course)

You’re not too far off with that guess B—)

I have my first acting job in ages today — it’s a top secret one . . .

Thank you! And thanks for helping me get here! B--)