Delighted to be at All Saints School in York with @JamesENicol with all the lovely and well-behaved pupils for an event for the brilliant The Spell Tailors
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@Ello_Miss @FunkyPedagogy @Team_English1@LitdriveUK@SaysMiss We have assessment books that they take from Y7 to Y9 - for key assessed pieces only. It makes them take it seriously, but takes up lots of office space to store them!
On 12th July 2021, the Department of Language and Linguistic Science will launch the third run of the MOOC ‘An Introduction to Sociolinguistics: Accents, Attitudes and Identity’.
👉To find out more about it and to sign up: https://t.co/VXG3Rwtpeg
Yr 7 - that's not how you say it in English
Other Yr 7- at least I don't speak all jenzi like you
Me - Is Jenzi a punjabi word?
Yr 7 - No miss, like talking slang... Like - Gen.... Z....
First time I've heard it used like that
@GovTutor This is superb - really interesting read. Some of this is transferable to KS3, but do you have any reading to suggest that particularly focuses on spelling at secondary school?
@MissNadin4 What about The Lies We Tell Ourselves? Really powerful. In my head, I have it for Y9, but can't remember why, so you'd need to check if okay for Y8
An “idiolect” is your unique way of speaking—the words you choose, how you pronounce them, etc. You likely have a shared way of speaking with those closest to you too; those inside jokes and expressions specific to your pod can be known as a “familect.” https://t.co/nDhaeAmvCX
SURVEY OF LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVES (from both linguists and non-linguists please!):
Reply with a common misconception about language change (eg, "kids these days are ruining English"). Bonus points if you include an example or theory that helps debunk one of these misconceptions.
The moment British Universities started to rely on student fees is when their recruitment began to determine what disciplines exist as departments. This has been a decades long process coming to fruition 1/7
"More often than not, name changes are benign. The disproportionate public reaction is rooted in a petty bias against superficial change."
@lynneguist of @SussexUniMAH discusses @SLA_plc rebranding to #Abrdn in @guardian
https://t.co/ko7Q1D2gqC
The Old English suffix –ock was used to form diminutive words, bearing some sense of a smaller or minor example of something. So a HILLOCK is a little hill; a RILLOCK is a small rill or stream; a BULLOCK was originally a young bull; and a DUNNOCK is a little dun-coloured bird.