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English Language & Linguistics for A-Level students and teachers.
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I'm sure this story will be about *exactly* what the headline claims it to be.
archive.today/2025.11.27-1...
November 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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We're waiting for the students and their teachers to arrive for the @engmediacentre.bsky.social A level English Language conference in London. Not long to go now 😬
A picture of an empty Friends House auditorium.
November 27, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Lovely bit of rage bait in the Oxford WOTY graphics for the term.
One for @emhumps.bsky.social I think :-)
Graphic with the words I'm glad your mad in a flash.
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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We've just recorded an interview with @lynneguist.bsky.social for the @lexispodcast.bsky.social and then this absolute whopper of a piece gets published. It's jam-packed with clichéd complaints, hoary hyperbole & xenophobic waffle.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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The Times covers it here: archive.today/ZFciM
November 6, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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There was a link in that Telegraph op-ed to this absolute abomination of a piece by Simon 'Strictly English' Heffer* 😬
Americanisms are poisoning our language From ‘I’m good’ to ‘train station’, British English is being assailed by American usage like never before. Are you embracing the US imports?
November 5, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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This doom-laden op-ed (by a teacher writing for the Telegraph) links the supposed Americanisation of young people's English to screen time, cultural imperialism (although the Telegraph would never use such a wooooke term), the nanny state and unboxing videos.
archive.today/cZ4kF
November 5, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Review grammatical content to determine what content should be re-sequenced to later key stages, and what content should be removed entirely at key stage 2 to enable a greater focus on grammar in use rather than grammar in theory Replace the current grammar, punctuation and spelling (GPS) test with an amended test, which retains some elements of the current GPS test but with new tasks to better assess composition and application of grammar and punctuation
November 5, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Most significant recommendations for English (IMO):
Make significant changes to the key stage 4 English programme of study and the GCSE English language subject content, introducing greater clarity of purpose to focus English language more clearly on the nature and expression of language, and to support critical analysis of a wider variety of text types and genres, including multi-modal and ephemeral text types
November 5, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Hmm... beyond the headline, this is a bit more complex than kids sounding more American.
archive.ph/2025.11.02-2...
November 3, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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I've not read it yet, but I'm assuming I'm right. Let's see...
archive.today/f2IPM
November 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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I'm going to give it a solid 7.
Strictly's Len Goodman holding the number seven.
October 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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A sensible point in Guardian letters about the long tradition of using daft catchphrases like 6-7...
My 13-year-old granddaughter, Sophia, confirms that randomly yelling “Six-sevvuhnn!” is trending at her school. This sort of thing is nothing new: when her mother was at school, the fashionable standard greeting between teenage boys was “Whassup?”. Mark Newbury Farndale, Yorkshire
October 22, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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More on that 6 7 trend that no one really wants to know more about... It's 'tyrannising maths teachers' now, apparently.
archive.today/a1Z5f
October 21, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Follow the #NoKings hashtag if you want to gather some excellent data for a placard-based language investigation! Here's a great example.
October 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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I hate to say it but The Telegraph is running its regular 'woke nonsense' story again. It's *literally* the same story every week, even down to the same cast of talking heads describing it as Marxist thought policing or leftist linguistic gatekeeping.
archive.today/0Va2c
‘Businessman’ is offensive term, says OECD Paris-based economists told to focus on ‘real problems’ instead of ‘linguistic gatekeeping’ after publication of inclusive language guide.
October 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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There's going to be elderly pedants' blood pressure hitting new heights with this potential less/fewer farrago.
Telegraph headline that reads 'BBC to show less current affairs'
October 17, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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My learned friends, how long until The Telegraph covers this as part of its 'woke nonsense' agenda?
www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/goodbye...
October 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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If you want your mind truly blown, try these too...
October 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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This one's interesting about accent attitudes, 'accent recovery' and it even features @christianilbury.bsky.social!
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October 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Staff the barricades! The Telegraph is running its monthly 'we've found another inclusive language guide and we're gonna get mad about it' article. This time, they're angry that women exist in workplaces.
archive.today/dLoSb
October 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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September 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Interesting one for Lang Diversity, with nods to gender, social groups, technology, region and class. Still not sure about how she said 'Magic Stars' but there you go...
archive.today/1EXI4
September 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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The evolution of Taylor Swift's accent.
archive.today/Nkydk
September 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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She has also written an intro to CDA for @engmediacentre.bsky.social emagazine (April 2025) and there's a new piece coming about the manosphere and language in the next edition in December.
September 23, 2025 at 12:11 PM