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The original pronunciation (OP) production of Henry V by Ben Crystal's Passion in Practice company went ahead on 26 July, in the Sam Wa...

'Michael Gove is instructing his civil servants on grammar' said the headline in today's Independent . And Mark Leftly went on t...

The National College for Teaching and Leadership, part of the Department for Education, have just sent me an informative briefing document a...

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...