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Ex-Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University. Author of How To Teach Pronunciation (Pearson, 2000) All my own tweets. Apart from the retweets. Cycling obsessive.

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#gkellyphonemicchart

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@GezKelly @NeilSheasby @TonyBeesley Fantastic forthcoming book by @neilsheasby , published by @tonybeesley , edited by me :-) https://t.co/KujPJZVyRA …

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@JaneSetter Got to eat it, otherwise it may simply stay hidden in the pudding 👍👍

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#textinspector #cefr
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@lynneguist Do one on the linguIstics of hotel names. 😊

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Feeling very proud and honoured to have been given the opportunity to act as editor for @NeilSheasby 's forthcoming book “Boys Dreaming Soul". Neil announced the release this morning. The book is due out in September, and is available to pre-order here: https://t.co/t93SfGSarR

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@JaneSetter @guardian Excellent 👍 and I don't even watch GoT 😊

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@nathanghall @lauraahaha wee bit, tad, bit, smidge, touch - UK

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@JaneSetter Not academic books, but Bill Griffiths, formerly at Northumbria Uni, produced (amongst others) these these two books, North-East dialect, and Pitmatic (miners' dialect)
https://t.co/AJN96B5bCP
https://t.co/jKSfTmUfZb

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@JaneSetter My mum (from County Cork) used 'gansey' for 'jumper' (I presume from guernsey (compare with jersey). Also appears up here in NE England. She also used 'oxter' for armpit (as in 'he held the book under his oxter' (under his arm). Again, also heard here in the NE

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@dajwilkinson @JaneSetter North-East/Northumberland: "hoyin' it doon" (= raining heavily) (hoy = throw or chuck)

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@JillLavs @JaneSetter Because it's hard, though, not soft

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@JillLavs @JaneSetter Hence stottie cake... Would bounce if dropped.

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@muzzer_daftbat @JaneSetter @becca171 Fettle also in Geordieland (how's your fettle). More widely, we speak of someone being in fine fettle. And I fettle the gears on my bicycle when they need adjusting.

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@JaneSetter "marra" Geordie for "mate" (noun 😉)

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Linguists found the world’s “weirdest” languages—and English is one of them https://t.co/X78sqCpw0Q via @qz

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Android phonetic keyboard 😎

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This looks amazing! Please someone do this for iPhone. #phonetics #IPA

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@Pearson_UK Who can I contact regarding royalties for the UK? No payment received in March, Royalties Direct defunct, no sign of new portal, no postal statement received.

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“Linguistically at least, Britain is embracing difference and change”, says ⁦@katyguest36912⁩ . ⁦@guardian⁩ #accent #dialect #English #language https://t.co/TmNDqxQbTk

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@JaneSetter I wood agree 😊

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Spare 10 minutes for this little wonder! Shakespeare: Original pronunciation (The Open University) https://t.co/h9T8DSz5Lj @JaneSetter