A student stayed after class to give me the most amazing gift basket of homemade goodies, including these magnets. I LOVE them. We could totally sell these as merch at NWAV, Sociolinguistics Symposium, etc.

This is not me complaining about language. This is me trying to understand what the quotation marks mean on these signs. Er, it’s the UK: the inverted commas. Minus points if your response includes complaints about apostrophes and the demise of grammar.

Feelgood view and photo, post sauna

We are very happy to host Dr Matt Hunt Gardner in Helsinki this week to hear about his fascinating work on pulmonic ingressive YUP. Fortunately he made it here, even after after I typed his name wrong on his airline booking. Hope you’ll be able to leave, @matthuntgardner.bsky.social 😘

Here we go!! I am so excited right now. I feel like I do some of my best linguistic work when I’m in the garden. I often find myself thinking of Lesley Milroy, because she is a badass gardener and a badass linguist. Aspirations.

Happy birthday to me! #itsalinguisticsbirthday Happy 100 to LSA and not quite that many for me.