David Willis
@david1willis.bsky.social
Jesus Professor of Celtic, Faculty of Linguistics, University of Oxford
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Tweetolectology has family! Postdoc/doctoral positions in language variation/change available on Curlew: Census of Urban & Rural Lang in England & Wales with @davidbritain.bsky.social @david1willis.bsky.social, @adrianleemann.bsky.social @paulfoulkes.bsky.social in Bern/Oxford/York www.curlew.info
CURLEW - Census of Urban and Rural Language in England and Wales
A comprehensive sociolinguistic survey documenting dialect variation across England and Wales
www.curlew.info
January 19, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Tweetolectology has family! Postdoc/doctoral positions in language variation/change available on Curlew: Census of Urban & Rural Lang in England & Wales with @davidbritain.bsky.social @david1willis.bsky.social, @adrianleemann.bsky.social @paulfoulkes.bsky.social in Bern/Oxford/York www.curlew.info
Some results from our Tweetolectology project with @adrianleemann.bsky.social
'Tin' of food or 'can' of food? Tin wins everywhere, but there's a classic hierarchical pattern with can spreading from London, Edinburgh and Birmingham. The northeast of England holds out with tin. #englishdialects
January 13, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Some results from our Tweetolectology project with @adrianleemann.bsky.social
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Welcome to 2026 everybody! Hope you had fun at New Year. Or should that be at New Years?
January 9, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Welcome to 2026 everybody! Hope you had fun at New Year. Or should that be at New Years?
More of the Curlew team in action!
September 30, 2025 at 8:54 AM
More of the Curlew team in action!
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David Britain, Paul Foulkes, David Willis and I have been awarded 2.5M CHF by SNSF & AHRC for CURLEW – the first major survey of English dialects in England & Wales in 75+ years. Starts: 2026 – posts to come. Outputs: papers + a public dialect atlas 🗺️ 📸 Drafting the proposal, Bern, Jan 2025.
September 29, 2025 at 8:09 AM
David Britain, Paul Foulkes, David Willis and I have been awarded 2.5M CHF by SNSF & AHRC for CURLEW – the first major survey of English dialects in England & Wales in 75+ years. Starts: 2026 – posts to come. Outputs: papers + a public dialect atlas 🗺️ 📸 Drafting the proposal, Bern, Jan 2025.