🔎 Can YOU identify these conlangs? 🤫 Don't give the answers away! Enter our COLOSSAL conlang contest by 1 May for a chance to win The Babel Lexicon of Language 🔗 Enter at https://t.co/vySFKyRwC6

You can now find the Henry Sweet Society on BlueSky! Follow @henrysweetsoc.bsky.social🦋

🚨 Get your abstracts in!! 🚨 The Call for Papers closes *this Friday 31st January*!! 🗓️ More information below 👇 #Gaeilge #Gàidhlig #CfP

The Colloquium will take place on 3-5 September 2025 in Reims (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne). See you all there!

Good news! ☀️ The deadline to submit abstracts for the Henry Sweet Society Colloquium 2025 has been extended to 28 February! How to submit: https://t.co/lcU1GIO2I8

📢CALL FOR PAPERS📢 Linguistics and Rhetoric: A Tale of Two Frenemies Annual Henry Sweet Society Colloquium @HenrySweetSoc 3-5 Sept. 2025, Reims, France Deadlines 🗓️ workshops/panels 15 Dec. other proposals 31 Jan. https://t.co/6ns3BBUr3G

CfP for next year's Henry Sweet Society Colloquium is now live!👏 To take place in Reims on 3-5 September 2025. Abstract deadline🚨: 15 December 2024 for panels/workshops 31 January 2025 for individual papers https://t.co/fCvfNKydBe

Submissions open for the Robins Student Prize! ✨Submit your essay on a linguistic topic before 30 November 2024. Essays should be 7,000–8,000 words in length. Winner receives £500 and year’s membership in the Philological Society. Details here: https://t.co/Y6q8zYSsjd.

Can you use Machine Learning to create an Open Access corpus of Old English? Find out more in the first Virtual Seminar of our new series of seminars! :)

Guidelines for authors: https://t.co/yI227yXUwK Please note this new date, as there will be no further extensions.

Good news!🙌 The submission deadline for the themed issue of the GEL Journal - "Linguistic Historiography: themes, history and traditions" - has been extended until October 10, 2024. More info:

The first Old English grammar to give an explanation of strong and weak adjectives was published by the Dane Rasmus Rask in 1817!

Learn about ogham in this fantastic video, which features 4 manuscripts in our collection: the Stowe Missal, the Book of Ballymote, medical treatises (RIA MS 24 B 3) & a 19th treatise on ogham by Windele (RIA MS 23 M 35). (MSS ogham examples from 15.28) https://t.co/i5eFYBorAS

#OTD 179 years ago, Henry Sweet (1845-1912) was born 🎂 Phonetician, an expert on Old Germanic languages focusing on Old English, a pioneer in language teaching, and the author of the unsuccessful Current Shorthand. The @HenrySweetSoc bears his name. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

CfP!🔔 The journal Revista do GEL launches a call for papers for a special volume with the title “Linguistic Historiography: themes, history, and traditions”, to be published in December 2024. Deadline : September 10, 2024. Details:

The newest and freshest issue of Language & History is out! 👀

🤗 We are looking for students to take up positions on our next committee! A great opportunity to make new friends and be part of a supportive community! 🗓️ Election 1st June at #CelticStudents2024 in Brest + online! More info on positions & how to join 🔗 https://t.co/E8Zv4mzgrK

Interested in Celtic languages and want to visit Brest? #CelticStudents2024 is waiting for you! 🫵

Missed the Henry Sweet Society Colloquium this year? We've got you covered with this great report by Emanuela Tenca (@Emanuela140483)✨ https://t.co/Vs0qe8FjQ6

What would a new month be without a new episode of our podcast? In the newest one (no. 39), James McElvenny (@UniSiegen) talks to Ingrid Piller (@Lg_on_the_Move) about her new co-authored book "Life in a New Language" (@OUPAcademic). 🎙️ https://t.co/SHKV0r3eyu #Histlx