Friday, 30 September 2016

The future of those tricky "th" sounds

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A number of newspapers have reported this week that the "th" sounds will die out by 2066 in British English (here's an articl...
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Monday, 19 September 2016

International Talk Like A Pirate Day: musings on the pirate accent

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Avast, me hearties! Arrrr! September 19 th every year is International Talk Like A Pirate Day . Started by John Baur and Mark Summers ...
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Tuesday, 28 June 2016

English: no longer an official EU language?

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In the fallout from Brexit, it has been suggested that English could stop being an official language of the EU . Is this likely to happen?...
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Tuesday, 14 April 2015

Compliments across cultures

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On the way home from the IATEFL PronSIG Pre-Conference Event on Friday, someone complimented me on my hair.  I felt pleased and I posted ab...
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Thursday, 28 August 2014

Profiling for the media

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I was recently called upon by Associated Press , the BBC News Channel  and Reading's Jack FM to comment on the spoken features of the ...
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Friday, 6 June 2014

Phonetic vs phonemic inventories

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In my first year "Sounds of Language" class, one of the things we do is look at phonetic vs phonemic inventories. I've just h...
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Tuesday, 15 April 2014

The Guess List: a study in /t/ elision

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The BBC is airing a new game show on Saturday nights hosted by the wonderful Rob Brydon and amusingly entitled The Guess List. You can read ...
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