"Mad Men" was so meticulous about its period-appropriate decor, but they used an edition of the Compact Oxford English Dictionary from 1987 in an episode set in 1963. www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroute...

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Was teaching about the shift towards performativity/social-constructivist perspectives in sociolinguistics yesterday and a student posted this meme on our course page. Fairly accurate representation of first wave --> third wave sociolinguistics. n.b., /n/ refers to (ING) variation.

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Yesterday we announced that our emagazine AL English Literature conference was fully booked. Today we need to tell you that the emagazine AL English LANGUAGE conference is fully booked. That's nearly 2000 students + their teachers to welcome at these two events next month!

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A new book for the new academic year: my monograph, ‘Reading Place Writing: Geography, Form, Immersion, 2010-2020’ has been published by @livunipress.bsky.social as part of the @englishassociation.bsky.social ‘English at the Interface’ series www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

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Gosh, brings it all back. I did langs at Mcr Poly and even managed a 3rd on my linguistics paper in about '77.(did you know Paco Ariza?) So much theory, would love to have studied Manc voices. But yes- Liam's accent sounded confected at the time. And I honestly thought Gary was Salford until today.

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