Sounds & Syllables
jasonwade.bsky.social
Sounds & Syllables
@jasonwade.bsky.social
Primary English consultant. Grammar geek. Word nerd. Book bore. Music anorak.

Author of Sounds & Syllables and Rainbow Grammar.
Rewriting Sounds & Syllables <ce> and <se> endings units.

Screw you, Anglo-Norman scholars.
April 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Such beautiful food at Core today.

🙂
January 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I’m really looking forward to getting my paws on this. Chris’ last book is probably the best all-round primer on teaching ready. I’m sure this will be equally good.
My new book, Primary Reading Simplified, is released this Monday.

Briefly, I'd like to explain why it exists, who I think will find it useful and where you can find it.

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January 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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These look really cool! I like the layout.
December 2, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Just arrived in North Wales for a day of spelling goodness.

🙂
December 2, 2024 at 8:10 AM
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Stunning 2,000 year-old Hellenistic mosaic glass bowl looking like a Starry Night! 💫

Tranlucent dark blue glass with opaque white spirals. From Canosa di Puglia. Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany 📷 by me

#AncientBlueSky 🏺
#Archaeology
December 1, 2024 at 10:38 AM
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For the end of November, shortly before the eleventh month became the twelfth, I wrote a piece all about those two numbers.

Why does English have the words 'eleven' and 'twelve'? How do they relate to 'one' and 'two'?

And what does Lithuanian have to do with all this?
dannybate.com/2024/11/30/o...
Oneteen, twoteen? The origins of ‘eleven’ and ‘twelve’
Reading time: 5 minutes November, at time of writing, is ticking out its final few hours, and with them, the eleventh month of 2024 is giving way to the twelfth. Aside from the awkward mismatch in …
dannybate.com
December 1, 2024 at 1:32 PM
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Thank you for these, @jasonwade.bsky.social !
November 24, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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I've decided BlueSky is a warts n all kinda place so in that spirit I'm sharing a link to today's LinkedIn post which is essentially a plea for work.

www.linkedin.com/posts/aidan-...

I thought I'd feel really awful sharing it but some really cool people have been super supportive so I feel ok.
Aidan Severs on LinkedIn: #opentowork
Hi everyone! Time for a bit of honesty... The diary for the rest of November and December is looking sparse, and I&#39;d love to work so I don&#39;t go crazy or…
www.linkedin.com
November 19, 2024 at 5:36 PM