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So the phone rings and it's a journalist from the Daily Mirror , wanting me to comment on the story circulating in the press this week, ...

I'm aroused out of a period of bloglessness (explained below) by the arrival of the second issue of Lingo - the language magazine for y...

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...