✍️ 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...

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✍️ 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...

📣 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