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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 8h

📖 Happy World Novel Week 2025!

👀 Butteries and wagger-pagger-baggers - read Katie Wales on Charles Dickens and university cant: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Babel article: Charley Dickens and university slang

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Rob Drummond @robdrummond.bsky.social · 3d

So interesting! I’ve always wanted to look into the visual aspect of accents.

‘Different accents look different' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Why I speak with a Yorkshire accent despite being born deaf'

Gladiators star Jodie Ounsley says it is one of the questions she gets asked the most.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Rob Drummond @robdrummond.bsky.social · 3d

Worker sacked for mocking Irish accent unfairly dismissed
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Irish accent mocking worker was unfairly sacked, tribunal finds

Karl Davies greeted a manager with,

www.bbc.co.uk

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Rob Drummond @robdrummond.bsky.social · 4d

Good to see a classic Traitors ‘yourself’ last night. First of the series I believe.

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Rob Drummond @robdrummond.bsky.social · 11d

A brilliant night in Manchester with @threebeansaladpod.bsky.social!

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Rob Drummond @robdrummond.bsky.social · 12d

As a new dog owner, I have to say that nothing prepared me for how committed dog-related businesses are to dog-related puns. They really commit.

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Rob Drummond @robdrummond.bsky.social · 18d

A very narrow view of the English language! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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English and Media Centre @engmediacentre.bsky.social · 20d

EMC CPD Face to Face: Starting to Teach A Level English Language

"I would strongly recommend it to all teachers of A Level English Language whether new to teaching the course or experienced teachers in need of new ideas and prompts."

Book by: 8am on 2nd October
buff.ly/fLPFvtl

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Rob Drummond @robdrummond.bsky.social · 22d

#sideeye

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Rob Drummond @robdrummond.bsky.social · 22d

Manchester, from Bolton

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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 25d

Exciting news: I've got a 3-page article on the Grasmere Dialect Plays in the Oct 2025 issue of 'Cumbria Life' magazine! Really hoping this will bring them to a wider audience @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social @countrystride.bsky.social
For more on the Plays, head over to @grasdialectplays.bsky.social

Photo of first page of Cumbria Life article on the Grasmere Dialect Plays. 3 black-and-white images: a large one of pace-egging on stage, and two smaller ones: rushbearing on stage and a publicity postcard of two young lovers in a hayfield

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Rob Drummond @robdrummond.bsky.social · 25d

The start of a new academic year. Seems like a good time to remind students and teachers who are looking at spoken language and identity for the first time that this is available and very accessible! In all the usual places. Please leave a review if you can😁

Rob Drummond @robdrummond.bsky.social · Apr 10

Officially out today! The paperback edition of 'You're All Talk: Why we are what we speak'. Available in all the usual places.
scribepublications.co.uk/books-author...

With some kind words from @susiedent.com, @simonmayo.bsky.social, David Crystal, Chris Mason, Ian McMillan, and Gyles Brandreth😁

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Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social · Sep 10

Sometimes it depresses me how little impact decades of the study of sociolinguistic variation and change has had on other areas of the language sciences (I get the same feeling about gesture studies), but I didn't even realise that this idea was prevalent in some areas of my own field!

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · Sep 9

For decades, linguists assumed kids drive language change through ‘imperfect’ learning. New research by Raviv, Blasi & Kempe (Psychological Review) show that instead, adolescents and young adults are more likely to spread, normalize, and cement linguistic shifts. www.mpi.nl/news/young-c...

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Rob Drummond @robdrummond.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thank you very much!

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cuey427 @cuey427.bsky.social · Sep 8

1/4 Another recent language favourite comes from the really quite wonderful Dr. Rob Drummond. The book is focused on, well, how we 'talk'. Do you have an accent? Does it make you sound educated, powerful, or perhaps a bit dim and poor.