TFW, you've had a slightly frustrating disrupted week jumping around between bitty bits of work & feeling unproductive, so you settle down to do some nice, straightforward #lexicography & the next word on your list is "waggle" 😊 #amcompiling

⌛2 weeks till the deadline for proposals for the 2025 AS Hornby Dictionary Research Awards (ASHDRA) on 30 April. You've still got time to get together a proposal for a research project related to #dictionaries in #ELT More details: tinyurl.com/565b4r25

Honestly, I sometimes think #lexicography work should come with counselling. I just had to do a corpus search for the phrase "vomit sth up" ... it was pretty nasty ... #amcompiling

Taking AI literacy seriously. adaptivelearninginelt.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/t...

Today, I'm joining @societyofauthors.bsky.social protesting against the use of pirated works by Meta to train their AI models. According to LibGen, 8 of my books have been stolen without permission or compensation. This is illegal - it's plain and simple theft. #BookThieves

A sunny #StetWalk to soak up some spring rays on a bench ☀️

I'm 'absolutely delighted' (i.e., really chuffed) that "Method and Postmethod in Language Teaching" by, erm, me, will be discussed and explored as part of this forthcoming ITDI course moderated by Scott Thornbury... www.linkedin.com/posts/intern...

TFW, you type "emphathize" and know it looks wrong, but can't quite work out why 🤣

💥6 weeks left to apply for 2025 AS Hornby Dictionary Research Awards (ASHDRA) - deadline 30 April If you've got a research idea strongly connected to dictionaries & ELT check the website for more info: tinyurl.com/3y58s7fy

A frustrating #StetWalk this morning, took my glass bottle to the deli to get a milk refill ... only to find they'd run out. Had to resort to plastic milk from the supermarket but then argued with the self-checkout about the empty glass bottle in my shopping bag! At least there were magnolias ...

Cold, but blue skies and waving daffs outside Bristol Cathedral on a morning #StetWalk to meet a pal for coffee

Lots here for discussion around language, identity, occupation and more. Swearing is a way of cutting though the noise, helping regulate emotion and part of a performance of identity, according to this piece. theconversation.com/banning-swea...

You only have to cross one country to get from Norway to North Korea.

Applications open for Hornby Trust MEd TESOL scholarship to support the teaching of English to refugees. For: experienced teachers who hold/have held refugee status, and currently teach English to refugees/asylum seekers in the UK Details: www.hornby-trust.org.uk/the-call-for...

TFW, you're writing something about usage labels in dictionaries and find yourself looking up examples of words in a whole bunch of dictionaries (on and offline) to see how they label them ... then realize your search history's going to look really dodgy #lexicographylife

Still grey and pain-aggravatingly cold out there, so just a short #StetWalk to admire the hellebores in Royal Fort Gardens

Catkins against grey skies on a very short perfunctory #StetWalk

Lexicographic catch of the day: I just very nearly uploaded a new entry with a typo in the headword ... 'pickled pink' instead of 'tickled pink' 🤣 #amcompiling

Call for papers: BAAL SIG Vocabulary Studies Annual Conference 2025 Teaching, Learning, and Assessing Vocabulary in Multilingual Contexts, 28-30 May 2025, University of Edinburgh, UK A title and a 300-word abstract should be submitted tinyurl.com/BAALVOCABSIG... by the 19th of February 2025.

Funding opportunities for #ELT dictionary research: 📢 Receive up to £15,000 from the A. S. Hornby Educational Trust for ELT-related dictionary research projects. 🔎 Details: tinyurl.com/565b4r25 ✒️ Apply by April 30, 2025. #Dictionaries #Research #ASHornbyEducationalTrust #ASHDRA

This film should be fun to watch. It comes out on the Americans' National Grammar Day, 4 March. www.rebelwithaclause.com @grammartable.bsky.social #EnglishGrammarDay #grammar #EnglishGrammar

Truly discombobulated by pain today, but a short #StetWalk with blue skies and crocuses helped fleetingly

This book, Queer Studies in English Language Education (2025), was published in time for February! I contributed Chapter 6: "An examination of how anti-queer ELT materials normally are, then queering them". Very proud now. Plz purchase or get your institutions to do so: brill.com/display/titl...

Crocuses about to unfurl under a tree and glorious tulips in a shop on this morning's #StetWalk

Snowdrops on today's #StetWalk

A wonderful #booklaunch last week for my prizewinning novella #Aerth, at @stanfordsbristol.bsky.social - thank you to all!

And here's the online application form(s) for the Hornby Scholarships scheme 2025/6... www.hornby-trust.org.uk/ma-tesol-sch...

*Webinar Recording - Hornby Trust: Master’s Degree UK Scholarships (TESOL)*: further detail and Q&As for those interested in applying If you were not able to attend the Hornby Educational Trust Scholarship Webinar today, the recording can be found here www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEQq...

A rather sad sight on today's #StetWalk - a dictionary randomly wedged between a wall and a lamppost 🤷🏼

A lovely evening listening to @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social talk about her new book "Aerth" - looking forward to get started on it #amreading

A.S. Hornby Trust: The Trust is pleased to be offering 10 Hornby Scholarships to study for the Master’s degree in TESOL at the University of Exeter, UK, for the 2025-26 academic year. (deadline 26th Feb) www.hornby-trust.org.uk/ma-tesol-sch...

An afternoon #StetWalk to meet up with a fellow #ELT writer pal for coffee & a natter. A grey damp kinda day, but I came back down a different street & spotted this burst of colour on the outside of a house:

New #ASHDRA dictionary research reports now up on Hornby Trust website 2 projects developed & trialled new resources in very different ELT contexts - for Physics students in Oman & primary schools in South Africa Scroll down to download full reports or single-page summaries: tinyurl.com/3y58s7fy

"Merry-making" ... hooray!

A gloriously bright, frosty morning #StetWalk ... I planned to go out for maybe an hour & stayed out all morning. What's the point in being #freelance if you can't make the most of a beautiful day?!

The Separated by a Common Language UK-to-US Word of the Year 2024 is: FORTNIGHT. With thanks to @helenzaltzman.bsky.social, @byagoda.bsky.social, Taylor Swift & Jack Antonoff separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2024/12/uk-t...

My cold's on its way out & I didn't want to provoke renewed snifffles by trudging around in the drizzle, so just a mini #StetWalk to & from a bit of cafe-working:

A grey, drizzly Saturday #StetWalk along the harbour

An eerie, foggy #StetWalk - well worth getting out despite a streaming cold:

It's been a grey, damp week, but unusually mild (13-14°C) & going out in woolly hats & scarves, I've overheated. Today, there were blue skies so I headed out hatless for a post-lunch #StetWalk ... turned out to be just 6°C & felt more like 3°C in the cold wind ... brrrr!!

How many words can you make that start with "qua"? Comment below (hint: checking past #CEDWordOfTheWeeks may help)! Check back on Wednesday for the definition of qua, this week's #CEDWordOfTheWeek

My new article in the latest edition of Modern English Teacher proposes an alternative (or rather complementary) vocab syllabus for ELT that goes beyond lists of words & delves more into how words actually work. If you subscribe, it's available here: www.modernenglishteacher.com/met-current-...

The Merriam-Webster Word of the Year for 2024 is ‘polarization.’ About half of you might take issue with this. www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/wor...

Very blowy on a short Saturday-morning #StetWalk & hard to stand up at points, but super-snug inside my woolly hat + double hood combo #StormDarragh

A slight struggle of a #StetWalk on a gloomy winter morning. I made it across the river though which, with a high tide, was a muddy, churning flow:

A crappy pain day & I'm not sure a cold #StetWalk helped much physically, but definitely mentally better than moping around at home:

What this #lexicographer gets up to on a wet weekend, inspired by an Aardman workshop at #EUKSW a couple of weeks ago:

My colleague at @hhu.bsky.social and go-to-phonologist Christian Uffmann just released a special music video to introduce himself. He truly puts the fun back in phonology, the antics in semantics, and makes you scream for more more more morphology 🎶🎵 #linguistics www.instagram.com/reel/DDHUNSB...

It's December already, wow. Now comes the tough wintery times for keeping up with #StetWalk. Glad we have StetWalkers here to motivate me! New followers, if you haven't heard of it, please join in on the fun (and the hashtag) and take that break from your desk :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=gga9...

My working day started with "strength" and ended with "struggle" 🤣 #lexicography #amcompiling