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Two dialect stories: one bad news, one good news. Let me start with the bad. I read in the Guardian a little while ago that funding for ...

I wake up from a period of bard-hibernation to find a fascinating debate going on in social media about the distinction between cup and mug...

A few correspondents have asked what has happened to my blog, as there have been no posts for a while. The answer is simple, and consists of...

You Say Potato is out today. The associated 'record your accent' survey is gathering pace, with over a hundred recordings up al...

My correspondent this time is Nicola Burton of Oxford University Press, who's been looking after the publicity for my recently published...

A correspondent writes to ask about the use of it in relative clauses, in such sentences as the following (taken from Fowler and also a mod...

Following on from my last post, I've had several emails from correspondents asking the same question. Did the Elizabethan court have an ...