🍓 In Babel No53, Simon Horobin looks at the etymology of fruits

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🎄 Time to dust off the old Christmas syntax tree...

👀 Inside the brand new Babel... ❓ How good is your grasp of graphemic symbolism? Answers in Babel No53! 🧑‍🏫 Quiz courtesy of @logological.bsky.social

📯 Babel No53 is online now! Trinidadian English Creole, Estonian humour, the roots of fruits, and much more 🖥️ Digital subscribers can read on at: cloud.3dissue.com/18743/41457/... ✉️ Print copies will be posted out through December 🏪 Subscribe at babelzine.co.uk

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👀 Coming very soon in Babel... 🎤 @janesetter.bsky.social looks at Taylor Swift's accent

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🎁 Treat yourself to 26 Babels for 2026… and only pay for postage! 💷 £10 in the UK. Get in touch for overseas prices 📧 Contact [email protected] to get yours!

✍️ TODAY IS DEADLINE DAY! Babel Young Writers' Competition! The winner will receive... 📖 Publication in Babel (Spring 2026)! 📚 A year's Babel subscription! 📘 Babel's Linguistic Lexicon book! 📜 Guidelines at babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Advert-Young-Writers-Competition-No54.pdf

📚 A classic Babel poster: How voice quality works 🔗 Enjoy for free at cloud.3dissue.com/18743/41457/...

🌏 The British have lost their American colonies... whereto next for English? 📚 Coming up in Babel No53! Cartoon by @mjcartoons.bsky.social

✍️ 1 week to go! Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic to win... 📖 Publication in Babel! 📚 A year's Babel subscription! 📘 Babel's Linguistic Lexicon book! 📜 Guidelines at babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Advert-Young-Writers-Competition-No54.pdf

📚 A Babel classic from our Best Of issue - what kind of linguist are YOU? 🔗 Find out at babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u... ✉️ ... or request a free print Best Of issue from [email protected]

✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition - deadline soon (1 December) 🏆 Previous winner Abhishak Dedhe looks at what it's like to be bilingual in America: babelzine.co.uk/ArticlePDFs/... 📜 Guidelines at babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Advert-Young-Writers-Competition-No54.pdf

✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! You could win publication in Babel (Spring 2026)! 📜 Guidelines: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Advert-Young-Writers-Competition-No54.pdf 🏆 Previous winner Dong Hyun Kang looks at wars on language: babelzine.co.uk/ArticlePDFs/...

✍️ Babel's Young Writers' Competition! Win publication and a year's subscription! 🏆 Here's inspiration from previous winner James Akka: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u... 📜 Guidelines: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Advert-Young-Writers-Competition-No54.pdf

✍️ Write for Babel! 🗺️ We are seeking linguists to tell our readers all about unusual or lesser-known languages 📧 Get in touch at [email protected]

Good times and surprisingly many good laughs at last night's @babelzine.bsky.social lecture by John Vice OBE, richly illustrated with video excerpts from all your favourite Parliaments (including French, German, Swiss, Australian alongside good old Commons and Lords). Thank you Babel and Kent uni!

📣 Tonight! The Babel Lecture 2025! 🧑‍🏫 John Vice - The work of Hansard, and why it matters 🗓️ @unikentlive, Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm 🎟️ Book your free seat at www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab... 🎥 We hope to share a recording online soon...

If you're in Kent: this is tomorrow! It's free, open to all, and will be really interesting. Lots of stories from the editor of the House of Lords Hansard. You need to book your free ticket at the link. @babelzine.bsky.social #linguistics www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...

🎞️ Fancy writing a linguist's film review for Babel? 📧 Get in touch at [email protected]

✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could win... 📖 Publication in Babel (Spring 2026)! 📚 A year's subscription! 📘 Babel's Linguistic Lexicon book! 📖 Read previous winner Benjamin Hong on whistled languages at babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...

✍️ Write a book review for Babel! Review opportunities: 📗 Danny Bate - Why Q Needs U 📕 Rupert Gavin - Amorous or Loving? 📘 Vered Shwartz - Lost in Automatic Translation 📧 Get in touch at [email protected]

📣 The Babel Lecture 2025 - 1 week to go! 🧑‍🏫 John Vice - The work of Hansard, and why it matters 🗓️ @unikent.bsky.social, Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm 🎟️ Book your free seats at www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...

🌎 Happy Novel Week! 📖 Read Babel's Dan McIntyre on the life and work of J R R Tolkien: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...

📆 2 weeks to go! Join us @unikent.bsky.social for John Vice's talk on his 30+ years of work at Hansard 🎟️ Book your free seats at: www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab... 🖥️ Watch this space for livestream details

📖 Happy World Novel Week 2025! 👀 Mary Ann Walter reviews @susiedent.com's Guilty by Definition, and takes a look at other linguistics-y crime fiction 🔗 babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...

📖 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...

✍️ Write a book review for Babel! Review opportunities: 📗 Danny Bate - Why Q Needs U 📕 Rupert Gavin - Amorous or Loving? 📧 Get in touch at [email protected]

I also purchased a subscription to @babelzine.bsky.social this week to change a bit of format. Let me know if you have an issue or article you recomend :)

📆 The Babel Lecture 2025 - just 3 weeks to go! Join us @unikent.bsky.social for John Vice's talk on his 30+ years of work at Hansard Book your free seats at: www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...

We're hosting this event at @unikent.bsky.social at the end of the month! So excited to hear all the goss about transcribing the House of Lords bickering! It's free and there is wine, so I'm in #linguistics #language

And if you don't win, hey, that's a cool essay you can post, publish, or submit elsewhere. (As far as I can tell, anyway.) If you're an undergrad in linguistics, anthro, cog sci, STS, comms, etc., think about submitting!

✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could win publication in Babel! 📖 Get inspired by previous winner Isabella Mandis: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...

📣 The Babel Lecture 2025 - 4 weeks to go... 🧑‍🏫 John Vice - The work of Hansard, and why it matters 🗓️ @kent.ac.uk, Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm 🎟️ Book your free seat at www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...

🗓️ Happy International Translation Day 2025! 📖 To celebrate, read all about a Baltic haven for translators in the latest Babel: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...

✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could be published in Babel 🏆 Here's previous winner Emma Jewell on Romansch: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u... 📜 See pinned post for this year's guidelines

📅 A reminder that National Linguistics Day is coming up in November! @linguisticshq.bsky.social 📚 Get a free set of Babels for your school, college or library to celebrate 📧 Contact [email protected]

🗓️ Happy International Day of Sign Languages! 📖 In Babel No4, Kateryna Pavlyuk points out that BSL is "an independent method of communication, in no way inferior to spoken language" 🔗 Read in full at babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...

✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could be published in Babel 🏆 Here's previous winner Claudia Bensi on Dutch and American English: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u... 📜 See pinned post for this year's guidelines

Attention young linguists! @BabelZine.bsky.social is running their 11th-annual Young Writer’s Competition! If you’d like to get your writing published in Babel and win a free year’s subscription, consider submitting your work! Submission details below.

🥇 Babel's Young Writers' Competition is now open! 🇰🇷 Here's inspiration from Niamh Mulholland, who won for her article on Konglish: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u... 📌 See pinned post for competition guidelines

🤼 Babel Young Writers' Competition - get printed in Babel! 🏆 Here's inspiration from previous winner @danielstrogen.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/4hk9sxpm

How to make the [s] and [z] sounds, from @BabelZine.bsky.social “The [s] and [z] sounds are called alveolar fricatives. [s] is voiceless, and [z] is voiced. They are made by the formation of a very narrow gap between the alveolar ridge (the bumpy ridge behind the top front teeth) ...

🗓️ 8 weeks til the Babel Lecture 2025! 🧑‍🏫 Join us for John Vice's talk on Hansard, Thu 30 Oct at @unikent.bsky.social 🎟️ Book your free tickets at www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...

👩‍🏫 Free Babels for teachers! 📚 Fancy some free copies for your classroom? Get in touch at [email protected]

🙋 Babel asks a linguist: Why is falsifiability important? 📖 Eloy Romero Muñoz explains in our latest issue

😛 @janesetter.bsky.social looks at tongue piercings & lisps... 📖 Learn all about it in our Autumn issue, available at babelzine.co.uk

✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic & you could win... 📖 Publication in Babel 📚 A year's subscription! 📘 Our Linguistic Lexicon book! 🐦 Get inspiration from Benjamin Hong on whistled languages: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...