An excellent gift for anyone interested in (British English) speech, accents, voice quality and their link with identity and cultural stereotyping. Or so I’m told … 😉.#language #linguistics #EngLang

Turns out the youth of today refers to fashion as “drip”. This seems to derive from describing people who wear a lot of items from top fashion houses as “dripping with it”. Every day is a school day.

Owing to this morning’s sad news, this is not going ahead.

If all goes to plan, I’ll be on @bbc5live at around 10:30am tomorrow (21/04/2025) contributing to a discussion about names.

Another example of how the media - and a respected institution such as the BBC - perpetuates negative stereotypes about #English #accents. #englang.

I’m quoted here - and it was a long time ago I talked to the Guardian! #English #pronunciation.

Wishing all my followers who celebrate it health and happiness in the Year of the Snake!.#LunarNewYear2025 #YearOfTheSnake

TODAY (Fri 17th Jan 2025)! I will be on BBC Radio 5 Live with Nicky Campbell talking about (what else?) how English accents are perceived from 10am UK time.

Be quick! Catch me on BBC Radio Leicester just after 8am UK time this morning, talking again about accents in #TheTraitorsUK.

Time now moved earlier to 14:05.

TODAY (8th Jan)! I'll be on BBC Radio Berkshire talking about accents and #TheTraitorsUK from about 14.15 UK time. I'll be chatting with Katie Tyler. Follow this link to listen live:.

Very pleased to have taken on the role of the Secretary to the Association of National Teaching Fellows! You can find the committee members list here. @NTF_Tweet .

I was asked by @LDNdailynews to suggest how to pronounce some of London's most challenging place names, without using phonetic symbols. Here's the result! .#English #pronunciation #EngLang #London #phoneticnames.

RT @Vijay_Ramjattan: My article about accent modification as a mechanism of workplace accentism is now placed in an issue of Career Develop….

RT @SDovchin: Congrats to @Eldin_Milak & @AnaTankosic for breaking the ground! From Chomsky, Labov to @sureshcanax, Pennycook … Pre-order b….

RT @UniRdg_EngLang: Jane is making the most of opportunities while she’s on secondment in Japan. Here’s a news article from the Kobe Gakuin….

RT @RobDrummond: A nice chart to end the week. This is the vowel space of Greater Manchester based on the speech of 300+ speakers who grew….

If you missed me on @BBCBerkshire this morning talking about the Berkshire and Reading #accent, you can "Listen again" here:.The segment is immediately after Blondie's "Sunday Girl" from just after 2:41:00. #rdguk.

Coming to you all the way from Kobe, Japan, I’ll be on @BBCBerkshire tomorrow morning (Weds 15th May) at 08:40 BST talking about the Reading accent and #accent change.

Much fun for apostrophe pedants. But watch out for some you’ll either know, or won’t … .

RT @UniofReading: Professor Robert Van de Noort appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. We are delighted to share a ph….