Emma Humphries (she/her)
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Emma Humphries (she/her)
@emhumps.bsky.social
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Researcher working on prescriptivism in popular culture. Interested in language attitudes and language policy. And Cruising with Jane McDonald.
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Next month I'll be giving a TEDx talk at Queen's on my two favourite topics: prescriptivism and Sabrina Carpenter!
Me standing on the red TED dot
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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It's here! Linguistic Insecurities and Authorities, published by @johnbenjamins.bsky.social, written by me!
Photo of me holding the hardback copy of my book!
May 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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YourWrong.co.uk
An image from the movie 'Wicked'. Glinda says: Pink goes good with green. A second image from 'Wicked'. Elphaba responds: Goes well with green.
March 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Six letters, beginning with P...

YourWrong.co.uk
A crossword clue which reads: Person who nitpicks your grammar, for example.
March 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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YourWrong.co.uk
Chalkboard sign in a pub: "Food's not on today, But your welcome to bring some and pretend it's ours!" Someone has corrected "your" to "you're" and written "B-, nice try!"
March 4, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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popbitch serving some "Your Wrong"-level goss this morning. Top Gear meets prescriptivism.
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A story shared in the Popbitch newsletter which reads as follows: Typo Gear: Hamming it up It's not just Richard Hammond who excels as a grammar nazi (he goes Ron Burgundy if he spots even an apostrophe out of place, over-pronouncing it on purpose, apparently). The entire Top Gear crew are more pedantic than you might think. A member of the production team who worked on Top Gear in its late aughts heyday says that hundreds of rush cuts of the show’s footage would be sent to Jeremy Clarkson to review himself. He would then frequently go absolutely mental about even the slightest of typos. Little wonder that the post-production crew were regularly reduced to tears.
February 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Image shows graffiti on a wall. In green it is written: 'So hot rite now'. Yellow writing is used to change the non-standard spelling from 'rite' to 'right'.
February 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Coming to university libraries near you (hopefully) in Spring this year (again, hopefully!).
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Book cover with the title Linguistic Insecurities and Authorities
January 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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I joined! Expect Académie française themed content
The image is of a man waking up a woman in bed. The text says: Babe, wake up. The ninth edition of the Académie française dictionary just dropped
November 15, 2024 at 2:34 PM