Lynne Murphy
@lynneguist.bsky.social
US linguist in UK. University of Sussex.
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Blog: http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com
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Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lynneguist
Blog: http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/lynneguist
You read it here first.
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
You read it here first.
She’s been texting me all the details! :)
November 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
She’s been texting me all the details! :)
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Thank you so much for tagging us Gretchen! We have another competition sponsored by CLiE, LAGB, BAAL, and CUP, please find details attached!
November 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Thank you so much for tagging us Gretchen! We have another competition sponsored by CLiE, LAGB, BAAL, and CUP, please find details attached!
Yeah, that won't be what they were talking about
November 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Yeah, that won't be what they were talking about
I don't think it's a chippy, in the way I'd use the word in Brighton. We've got fancy chip shops kind of like this one, no fish, no sausages, just chips with very fancy sauces.
Would you use 'chippy' for something like this?
funky-chips.com
Would you use 'chippy' for something like this?
funky-chips.com
HOME - Funky Chips
funky-chips.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I don't think it's a chippy, in the way I'd use the word in Brighton. We've got fancy chip shops kind of like this one, no fish, no sausages, just chips with very fancy sauces.
Would you use 'chippy' for something like this?
funky-chips.com
Would you use 'chippy' for something like this?
funky-chips.com
Reposted by Lynne Murphy
We talk to @lynneguist.bsky.social about the supposed 'Americanisation' of young British people's vocabulary, media scares and why we should approach news stories like these with some criticality. Show notes and links are here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Episode 77 - Lynne Murphy and the 'Americanisation' of young people's English
Show notes for Episode 77 Welcome to episode 77 of Lexis in which Raj & Dan talk to Lynne Murphy, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sussex about a flurry of recent news stories about chil...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
We talk to @lynneguist.bsky.social about the supposed 'Americanisation' of young British people's vocabulary, media scares and why we should approach news stories like these with some criticality. Show notes and links are here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
It's used a fair amount. It's very convenient!
November 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
It's used a fair amount. It's very convenient!
Just searched for it and got 0 matches. He doesn't give verb forms, so past tenses only show up in quotations. There are no past tenses in the entry for 'plead' but there are 'pleaded's (no 'pled') in quotations in other entries
johnsonsdictionaryonline.com
johnsonsdictionaryonline.com
Johnson's Dictionary Online
Supported by the University of Central Florida, NEH and Center for Humanities and Digital Research (CHDR) .
johnsonsdictionaryonline.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Just searched for it and got 0 matches. He doesn't give verb forms, so past tenses only show up in quotations. There are no past tenses in the entry for 'plead' but there are 'pleaded's (no 'pled') in quotations in other entries
johnsonsdictionaryonline.com
johnsonsdictionaryonline.com