Professor Robert Van de Noort appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire We are delighted to share a photograph from Windsor Castle of Robert Van de Noort collecting his CBE from Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal last week. Find out more rdg.ac/3wbGHNs

Much fun for apostrophe pedants. But watch out for some you’ll either know, or won’t … theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

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

If you missed me on BBC Berkshire this morning talking about the Berkshire and Reading #accent, you can "Listen again" here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0… The segment is immediately after Blondie's "Sunday Girl" from just after 2:41:00. #rdguk

A nice chart to end the week. This is the vowel space of Greater Manchester based on the speech of 300+ speakers who grew up in one of the ten boroughs. Over 96,000 vowel measurements here. Great work by Dr Caitlin Halfacre caitlin91.bsky.social!

Jane is making the most of opportunities while she’s on secondment in Japan. Here’s a news article from the Kobe Gakuin University website (you may find Google Translate helpful!): kobegakuin.ac.jp/education/facu…

Congrats to Eldin Milak & Ana Tankosic for breaking the ground! From Chomsky, Labov to suresh canagarajah, Pennycook … Pre-order below! A must read! CurtinEducation Curtin University Library routledge.com/Becoming-a-Lin…

My article about accent modification as a mechanism of workplace accentism is now placed in an issue of Career Development International: tinyurl.com/48jd3h9x It is part of a special issue on linguistic profiling and career development.

I was asked by londondaily.news to suggest how to pronounce some of London's most challenging place names, without using phonetic symbols. Here's the result! londondaily.news/londons-most-d… #English #pronunciation #EngLang #London #phoneticnames

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 ntf-association.com/about/committe…

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: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li…

Time now moved earlier to 14:05.

Be quick! Catch me on BBC Radio Leicester just after 8am UK time this morning, talking again about accents in #TheTraitorsUK. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li…

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. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li…

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

I’m quoted here - and it was a long time ago I talked to the Guardian! huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/zee-vs-z… #English #pronunciation

Another example of how the media - and a respected institution such as the BBC - perpetuates negative stereotypes about #English #accents. #englang theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/a…

If all goes to plan, I’ll be on BBC Radio 5 Live at around 10:30am tomorrow (21/04/2025) contributing to a discussion about names.

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

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.