Merry Christmas to all our followers & listeners who celebrate it or just use the holiday to have a good time. We'll be back in the new year with some new episodes including some student takeovers where we'll hand the mics over to A-level students to do the talking & interviewing.

And the BL Word of the Week of the Year, as voted by listeners: temu (derog.): a cheap or knock-off version We think it reflects a complicated relationship with companies we do business with. Even as we use them, we feel the shadiness. See or hear this episode becauselanguage.com/131-wotwoty-...

Nice overview of recent WOTYs and the worlds & times they reflect. Decent style model for P2Q4 as well! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Seems sensible.

New episode just out! It features an interview with John Kelly aka @mashedradish.bsky.social on #WOTY2025 and the whole Word of the Year phenomenon. Word nerd heaven or cynical marketing ploy from BiG dIcTiOnArY? spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/pnwYbTXR3Yb

Rage Bait?! That's *two* words!!! share.descript.com/view/Yzj5Lej...

We'll be talking about this iconic moment in the death of a slang term in our next episode. bsky.app/profile/hoov...

Quick peek at our next episode and what we're talking about with @mashedradish.bsky.social share.descript.com/view/XQ5aTYF...

New episode out now. #Linguistics #LangSky open.spotify.com/episode/6eVH...

A little preview of what our next episode, with @lynneguist.bsky.social, will be covering. share.descript.com/view/xo1Zcqo...

We've just recorded a new episode with @lynneguist.bsky.social on the recent flurry of articles about young people and the supposed Americanisation of their language. And how we've been here before. Coming soon!

We've got a new episode out! It features an interview with Dani Yin and Cheryl Wakslak about their recent paper on gendered use of exclamation marks in digital communication and it's a really good conversation: open.spotify.com/episode/5KzP... #linguistics

This new LOTM Starter Pack is slowly starting to grow. It takes some time and searching, but today, the latest additions are people who have been interviewed for the @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast. Key takeaways: there are quite a few episodes and only some are on Bluesky, but they include:

@christianilbury.bsky.social is another recent addition to the Starter Pack, and joined @brynnquick.bsky.social for an interview earlier this year to discuss his new book, Researching Language and Digital Communication: A Student Guide. A great discussion! www.languageonthemove.com/researching-...

Advice welcome - I'm moving as much as I can off Spotify (for various reasons) so where's a good place to link to for the pod? Where do other people use that's not Spotify-related? And any good alternatives to what used to be Anchor (now Spotify) for uploading pods?

We've been away for a while but episode 75 is finally here. We talk about accent discrimination, attitudes to teachers' accents and about what accent prejudice tells us about wider social attitudes. #Linguistics open.spotify.com/episode/5wnC...

New episode (number 75!) coming very soon and it's a bumper episode featuring 3 linguists, 1 teacher, 4 podders and a Lang in the News segment.

No sooner had we finished recording a Lang in the News segment than the Telegraph runs the same kind of story again. It's uncanny...

We've been having a bit of a break since June but we'll be back soon with some episodes about attitudes to accents, especially teachers' accents, and some Lang in the News! Watch this space 👀

My learned friends, how long until The Telegraph covers this as part of its 'woke nonsense' agenda? www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/goodbye...

Longer words and real reflection: the science behind a convincing apology

Interesting read, with so much detail. Made me think of the rise of "y'all" nationwide (as the country becomes more southern) and the decline of the southern drawl in places like Atlanta (as the south becomes more like the rest of the country).

It's nearly the end of term, so thanks to all the linguists who have appeared on the show this academic year. We've had some great interviews and met some lovely people. And thanks to all of you for listening. We'll be back in the Autumn term and are getting a few things lined up for then.

EMC CPD Face-to-Face: Language Diversity and Discourses for AQA – Manchester Exploring language variation, diversity and language discourses for AQA English Language. Book by: 8am on 9th July buff.ly/ihKC9cZ

At least one reason why I mostly don't write accents in my comics is basically this. Who gets written with an accent and who doesn't is always a tell.

We're having a bit of a break from new episodes at the moment but if anyone has requests for topics (or linguists) for future shows, give us a shout.

This was such an interesting conversation! @robdrummond.bsky.social. If you're interested in what makes up an accent, how favored accents get that way, why people adopt fake accents, and more — check it out!

Episode 74 is here. We talk to @lauraskh.bsky.social about the language of law and lots more. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/lex...

In the latest episode of the Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, our host @brynnquick.bsky.social chats with @mixedlinguist.bsky.social about language and accent in US politics, with a focus on the speech of @kamalaharris.com www.languageonthemove.com/accents-comp...

New episode out. It's a preview of the @yorktoolkit.bsky.social workshops for 2025. We hear about: child-directed speech, forensic linguistics, gender, sexuality & language in a women's football team, and an update of research into media representations of MLE. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/lex...

We've just got a new episode in the can which will come out very soon. It's our annual preview of the @yorktoolkit.bsky.social teacher CPD event. Coming soon! Get signed up here if you haven't already: englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/workshops

Revising for Paper 2? I’ve gone back through a few dozen Lexis episodes to pick out the ones that I think could help you most. Here is a thread... 🧵

Would a quick roundup of relevant episodes for A-Level revision be any use over the next week or so?

New paper out on my London Talks (www.londontalksresearch.co.uk) research! #Cockney #London www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Gender, politics and power are all under discussion in our latest episode, in which we talk to Professor Karrin Vasby Anderson. We talk about Trump, toxic masculinity and the threat of demagoguery to democracy, through the lens of communication studies. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/lex...

This is on its way and it's a good one.

There's a new episode on its way over the Easter break featuring an interview with Prof Karrin Vasby Anderson and we cover a lot: political debates, the double-bind for female politicians and the importance of communication study to a healthy democracy. Coming soon.

Welsh English is the focus of Episode 71 which features an interview with @drswissmiss.bsky.social Listen here/ear/yerr: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/lex... #Linguistics

We've got a new episode coming soon and it's an interview with @drswissmiss.bsky.social about Welsh English, variety in Welsh Englishes and how they might be changing.

Wrote this about some recent research into accents and dialects. Ties in to some interviews we've been doing over on the @lexispodcast.bsky.social

Last week I spoke to the lovely Raj and Dan from @lexispodcast.bsky.social about Your Wrong and all things prescriptivism. Link to listen below!

It's here! Episode 70 is all about prescriptivism and we have a great chat with @emhumps.bsky.social about it all, from the French academy to pedantry in popular culture and through to how to persuade the pedants in your life that they're just wrong. #Linguistics creators.spotify.com/pod/show/lex...

We've got a great new episode lined up. It's all about prescriptivism and we talk to @emhumps.bsky.social about her Your Wrong project and lots more. Coming soooooon 👀

Just a quick reminder that the new episode is up. If you're revising Lang Diversity for Paper 2 or just want some extra content on accent attitudes, this episode will help you out.

Episode 69 is out and it features @nataliebraber.bsky.social & @alicepaver.bsky.social talking about accent stereotypes and their recent paper on accent attitudes in forensic contexts. #Linguistics creators.spotify.com/pod/show/lex...

We've got a new episode coming up soon featuring 3 linguists - yes, three! And one of them is doing the interviewing: Amanda Cole joins us as a guest interviewer as we talk to @nataliebraber.bsky.social & @alicepaver.bsky.social about their paper on Stereotyped Accent Judgements in Forensic Contexts

In ep 1 we chat with linguist Paul Kerswill about the migration of Yiddish into Cockney English and listen to a Yiddish music hall song from 1900 about the immigrant experience of language & culture being turned upside down @lexispodcast.bsky.social @davidadger.bsky.social @stancarey.bsky.social

We talked about the weaponisation of 'DEI' in the US in the latest pod and here we are... bsky.app/profile/davi...

Music hall mashups! The Cockney Yiddish Podcast, launching on 17 Feb, explores the linguistic and cultural hybrids that Jewish immigrants created in East End music hall songs. cockneyyiddish.org Listen out for our Cockney-Yiddish Word of the Week @davidadger.bsky.social @youngalison.bsky.social

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