"Doing a number 2" is a quite common expression in at least parts of the UK....where are you from? 🤣

A visit by Vance will *boost* his chances? 🤣🤣🤣

I think the bottle of L&P in Paeroa is more impressive 😉

I noticed exactly the same. The media are irritated their proReform narrative lost.

And their spokesperson was given such an easy ride by the interviewer, in sharp contrast to the attacking way they interviewed Polanski. The media were creaming in their jeans at the prospect of Reform winning, and they seem subdued and disappointed this morning that they didn't get their way.

So many groundbreaking linguists, of all persuasions, spent time at Essex at various points in their career: Michael Halliday, Andrew Radford, Peter Trudgill, Viv Cook, Keith Brown, Henry Widdowson, Harald Clahsen, Bob Borsley, Andrew Spencer, Louisa Sadler, Roger Hawkins.... So sad...

Spot on

Always.

If you are a journalist and you don't know how to talk about the divide in access to education in the UK, start here:

as a left-wing American, I feel the need to warn the British something they already know: if you have a choice between milquetoast centrist fucks everyone hates and literal Nazis, please don’t make the same mistake that we did

Perhaps because they all have an excellent record of supervising and promoting young female and trans scholars and have contributed positively to producing the diversity in the field that you mention?

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New paper out w @davidbritain.bsky.social & T. Blaxter: Using data from 50K speakers, we show that many once-distinctive English regional terms have sharply declined. Even the northern backend for ‘autumn’ now survives only at low rates, mostly among older, less mobile speakers. tinyurl.com/39uy4x5e

An accolade indeed

Et voila! Case proven.
#solar

When I was doing my PhD, I propped up the Bulgarian economy drinking their cabernet sauvignon. £1.99 from the local bottle store.

Grüsse von Bern! Geniess deine Reise!

Mein Schwager wohnte in Eastbourne! Typische traditionelle englische Seaside-Stadt. Er wohnt jetzt in der Nähe von Battle, der auch sehr besuchswürdig ist.

Sussex

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That needs to be standard practice across all journals, but sadly isn't.

But as a reviewer, you want to be confident that the Editor has prescreened the papers they are sending out to review, and not sending everything out to review...

Aber das muss eine ausländische Übersetzung sein. In England findet man nie Rezepte mit 1.22 oder 2.14 ounces. Gram zu Ounce Umrechnungen würden gerundet werden.

Counterpoint: new Public First research shows every UK resident working adult (on a full time equivalent basis) is £466 a year better off on average as a result of international students. So let’s just publicise that instead of levying them
www.publicfirst.co.uk/calculating-...

And they actually look like they will taste nice too

Usually we get this stuff when there is no real news. However....lol

Sounds like journalistic fluff. I've never heard a Brit express this view either.

I've never ever heard a Brit get worked up about the word 'soccer'. Ever.

America, what has happened to you?