📣 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...

📣 The Babel Lecture 2025! 🧑‍🏫 John Vice on Hansard, the report of proceedings in UK parliament 📖 Learn about Hansard at parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/lords-library/history-of-hansard.pdf 🗓️ @unikentlive, Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm 🎟️ Book your free seat at kent.ac.uk/whats-on/babel-lecture-2025

🚣‍♂️ OTD 1620 - the Mayflower sets sail from Southampton to the New World 📖 In Babel No46, Dan McIntyre looks at how a new English followed...

📝 Friday quiz! @logological.bsky.social tests your Catalan chrononomy 📖 Find the answers inside the brand new Babel No52... 📚 Print & digital issues available at babelzine.co.uk

📖 Inside the brand new Babel... 🇮🇪 Sarah O'Connor looks at the history and current status of Irish 📚 Print & digital issues available at babelzine.co.uk

✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist topic to win: 📖 Publication in Babel 📚 A year's subscription 📘 Linguistic Lexicon book 🏆 Here are some previous winners for inspiration 📜 Guidelines at babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Advert-Young-Writers-Competition-No54.pdf

✍️ Write a book review for Babel! Review opportunities: 📗 Tracy Darnton - My Brother Is an Avocado; My Sister Is a Treasure 📘 Emma Humphries - Linguistic Insecurities and Authorities 📕 Rupert Gavin - Amorous or Loving? 📧 Get in touch at [email protected]

📖 Inside Babel's Autumn issue... 🗓️ Rebecca Mitchell looks forward to National Linguistics Day 2025 🔗 Read more at babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/No52-Article-National-Linguistics-Day-2025.pdf

👀 Inside the brand new Babel... 📖 Jack Shiers on the revival of Breton and how classrooms can be "a battleground for cultural survival" 📚 Get your copy at babelzine.co.uk!

🎉 Babel No52 out now! Māori, Breton, Irish & much more 📬 Print issues to reach subscribers throughout August 🖥️ Digital issue now at cloud.3dissue.com/18743/41457/106040/issue52/index.html?r=79 🏪 Don't miss out! Subscribe at babelzine.co.uk

✍️ 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! 📜 Guidelines at babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Advert-Young-Writers-Competition-No54.pdf

👀 A peek inside Babel's Autumn issue... 📖 Benjamin Danesh takes a look at the current status of the Māori renaissance 🏪 Subscribe at babelzine.co.uk to get your copy fresh off the press!

🕵️‍♂️ "A forensic scientist, asked about where he had developed skills at communicating with juries, replied it was during his previous career. He had been a schoolteacher" 📖 Peter French & Louisa Stevens discuss life as a forensic speech scientist 🔗 Enjoy Babel No1 free at babelzine.co.uk

🫵 Babel wants YOU... to tell our readers about your work with languages! 📧 Get in touch at [email protected]

🗞️ LANGUAGE IN THE NEWS: THE WRONG SOLUTION TO A NON-EXISTENT PROBLEM ✍️ In the latest Babel, read all ab out Trump and English becoming the official language of the USA

🗣️ "Not merely the commonest consonant in the world’s spoken languages, [m] is the commonest speech sound of all" 📖 In Babel Summer 2025, @domwatt.bsky.social looks at a 'palindromic' speech sound...

🎒 Free Babels for your school! 📚 Request a pack of 10 back issues for your school/college/library at [email protected] (P&P applies outside the UK)

📖 Inside Babel's Summer issue... 🐱 Simon Horobin falls down the rabbit hole of the curiouser and curiouser language of toves and borogroves...

☀️ Babel No51 - feel-good issue of the summer! 📖 Language revitalisation, good sound vibrations, accent pride & more 🏪 Buy & subscribe at babelzine.co.uk

🕮 Babel meets reader Ann Friedman of @planetworddc.bsky.social in our new Summer issue ✍️ Fancy being interviewed in a future issue? Get in touch at [email protected]

🛸 How might we speak to Venusians? @stockwell.bsky.social speculates in Babel No1 📖 Read Babel No1 for free at babelzine.co.uk 🎁 Request a free print Babel No1 from [email protected]

🎂 OTD 1912, computer science pioneer Alan Turing was born 🤖 In Babel No26, @hanachronism.bsky.social looked at the Turing Test and the possibilities of AI communication

A babyfree morning. Reading @babelzine.bsky.social and drinking tea, the little things.

Got the physical version of my @babelzine.bsky.social interview in the mail today! Fun little bday present

🗓️ OTD 2022 - @stephenfry.bsky.social gave the 10th anniversary Babel Lecture 📽️ Watch 'What we have here is a failure to communicate' at youtube.com/@babelzine

🧑‍🎤 OTD 1972, Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars was released 📖 In Babel No41, Laura Hidalgo-Downing and Paula Pérez-Sobrino explored metaphors in tributes to David Bowie

❓ What does 'footing' mean? ⚽ or 👟 or 🏃? 🇮🇹 Test your itanglese in the new Babel with @logological.bsky.social's Language Games... 🏪 Pick up issues & subscriptions at babelzine.co.uk

✍️ Write a book review for Babel! Review opportunities: 📘 Emma Humphries - Linguistic Insecurities and Authorities 📕 Rupert Gavin - Amorous or Loving? 📧 Get in touch at [email protected]

😋 'Wine', 'food', 'eat' - learn about important American Sign Language signs in our Summer '25 issue 🏪 Issues and subscriptions at babelzine.co.uk

🌻 Babel Summer 2025 📖 The etymology of 'pound' and 'pineapple', the roots of American Sign Language, reviving the Kusunda language, and more 🛍️ Issues & subscriptions at babelzine.co.uk

🪴 What if your Bonsai just needs a good talking to? 📖 In Summer's Babel, @janesetter.bsky.social looks at the possible restorative effects of plant-voice 🏪 Buy issues & subscribe at babelzine.co.uk

🌻 Babel Summer 2025 📖 The etymology of 'pound' and 'pineapple', the roots of American Sign Language, reviving the Kusunda language, and more 🛍️ Issues & subscriptions at babelzine.co.uk

📣 The Babel Lecture 2025! 🧑‍🏫 John Vice - The work of Hansard, and why it matters 🗓️ At the University of Kent, Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm 🎟️ Book your free seat at www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...

📝 Fancy reviewing Rupert Gavin's 'Amorous or Loving?' for Babel? 📧 Get in touch at [email protected]

👀 Inside Babel Summer 2025... 💬 @linguisticdiscovery.com tells us about his work in language revitalisation and as a linguistics communicator. Welcome to the Babel Panel, Danny! 🛍️ Subscribe to Babel at babelzine.co.uk

👀 A peek inside Babel Summer 2025... 🎞️ @danielstrogen.bsky.social looks at the connections between accent and identity in Swansea 🛍️ Subscribe at babelzine.co.uk