George Bailey

Senior Lecturer in Sociolinguistics at @UoYLangLing • sociophonetics • language variation and change • ultrasound tongue imaging • dialectology/Twittalectology

[George Bailey @grbails]

Should I have spent so many hours this week developing an IPA countdown game? Probably not, but here it is anyway: https://t.co/radBEzxXzN I tested it out in a seminar last week and it went down a treat, so feel free to use it in any introductory phonetics classes! ⌚️🗣️

[George Bailey @grbails]

@Charmaling @MBEdits7 @spectator As a sociolinguist, it’s literally my job to research these things, and let me assure you that you are very very wrong about this.

[George Bailey @grbails]

@rexy69 @GerardWhateley @SEN_Cricket I’m trying my best Rexy. Truth be told I’m more of a football man myself.

[George Bailey @grbails]

@andyburnham Controversial topic Andy, you’re at risk of alienating the muffin-eating half of your beloved Greater Manchester there! Here’s a dialect map we’ve made showing what people call it in different parts of the UK: https://t.co/q1hABogrK4

[Language & Linguistics @ UoY @UoYLangLing]

Dr George Bailey (@grbails) spoke to an audience of over 850 people, mostly English Language A-level students, last week at the English and Media Centre conference, showing how AI and machine learning can reveal patterns of dialect change in the North of England.

[York English Language Toolkit 💙🎓 @YorkToolkit]

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FREE registration for the 2025 York English English Language Toolkit is now open!

The outline programme and registration link are at: https://t.co/gLmI5BwYll

The workshop is fully hybrid, so join us in York or online!

[York English Language Toolkit 💙🎓 @YorkToolkit]

📣Save the date: This year's York English Language Toolkit workshop will be on *Friday 11th July*, with the option to attend in person in York or online. FREE registration will open by the start of the summer term!

[George Bailey @grbails]

🎁 Struggling for gift ideas this festive season?

Consider giving someone the gift of knowledge, and sending them my latest journal article: the fourth and final study from my PhD—on ternary variation in (ing)—is out now in LVC! @CambUP_LangLing

📖➡️ https://t.co/6vtpXj4R3M

[George Bailey @grbails]

@DrPaulFlanagan We can agree on Gary at least 🦍 It was an iconic moment when they brought him out at Wythenshawe Park - saw them again at a tiny venue in Manchester the other week and the stage was too big for him 😢

[George Bailey @grbails]

Not quite the heights of last year’s 45.2k, but I’m nothing if not consistent. Perks of having a long commute 🎧

[George Bailey @grbails]

@DrPaulFlanagan 😱 Brandon Flowers isn’t fit to lace the Geordie Springsteen’s boots!

[George Bailey @grbails]

@tn75146488 Congratulations Takayuki! 🎉🥳

[Dr. Rhys Sandow @sandow_linguist]

More coverage of our U-non-U paper @grbails @NatalieBraber @EddieOHaraBrown

[Dr. Rhys Sandow @sandow_linguist]

@NatalieBraber and I have published in an article in the Conversation, building on work with @grbails and @EddieOHaraBrown published in EWW here- https://t.co/MQIydLnbt2, showing that what we think we know about ‘posh’ words is all wrong!

[George Bailey @grbails]

@sandow_linguist 😂 I’m sure I’ll be glad of my apparently youthful looks one day

[George Bailey @grbails]

In the last two weeks I’ve now been:

(1) Promoted to senior lecturer 🧓
(2) Asked for my ID to buy paracetamol 👶

The duality of man

[George Bailey @grbails]

@DrPCooper1

[George Bailey @grbails]

Aurora borealis? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localised entirely within my garden?

[George Bailey @grbails]

@samhellmuth Also on the other side of the Pennines!

[George Bailey @grbails]

Quick, new cow sociolinguistics has just dropped: https://t.co/1wZW42ht90

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