Luke Pearce

Like English, Spanish is constantly evolving. Unlike some English speakers, we welcome that | María Ramírez Purists’ attempts to police our global languages are doomed – there’s joy and inspiration in new expressions from all over the world, says journalist María Ramírez

I write @theguardian.com about Spanish and English across continents.The many variations we share are not obstacles: they are a testament to the resilience, creativity and beauty of our languages. With cameos @uninoticias.bsky.social and Diana Salinas www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A @starkeycomics.bsky.social graphic shows just how many of the 'gen' words are related.

Gemini, genocide, gentle, gentleman, agenda, gentrified, genes, gender, general, Genesis, genitals, genetics, genius...

My guess would be that these (gin, ginger, ginseng, jinx, Jenga) aren't cognates?

YouTube video by clipseVEVO Clipse, Kendrick Lamar, Pusha T, Malice - Chains & Whips (Official Lyric Video)

Kendrick Lamar's verse on the Clipse' song Chains and Whips got a lot of attention, including for the 'gen' scheme which uses a lot of etymologically related words...

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Submissions for our new book No Other-Creating Schools Where Everyone Belongs, are inspiring and humbling.

Two gaps remain - in refugee education and the education of the Traveller community.

Any educators out there with something to say on these areas, please get in touch 🙏

Last two talks of the day!

#EnglishGrammarDay

More great talks at #EnglishGrammarDay 2025

#EnglishGrammarDay 2025 is underway!

🗣️What did visitors make of last year's event?

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English Grammar Day 2025 | British Library Are you sat down or sitting down while reading this? Have you got or do you have a preference for one form over the other? English has a number of ways of

There's still time to book tickets for English Grammar Day 2025!

Join us at the British Library, 7 July, for talks from a 'gramm-azing' line up of speakers.

Teachers: bring along your students!

Info & booking here:

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We have a new blog! From the team @engliciousucl.bsky.social‬ a tale of engagement with grammar - and the chance to attend this year's event in the British Library. blogs.ucl.ac.uk/public-engag...

Primary to Secondary English Grammar for Teachers (Online Course) Online course for secondary school teachers who want to help their pupils bridge the gap between primary and secondary English grammar.

🌁Bridge the gap with expert-led #CPD:

Primary to Secondary Grammar

Help learners build on their #KS2 #Year6 knowledge to improve literacy at #KS3 #Year7

🗓️20 June
💻Half day, online
🔗Book now:

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Short Courses for School Teachers The Survey of English Usage is running intensive half-day online courses for school teachers in teaching English Grammar.

English Grammar CPD upcoming dates:

☀️June
🗓️13th - English Grammar for Teachers
🗓️20th - Primary to Secondary

💻Online, intensive courses
🎓By experts at UCL

More info & booking:

www.ucl.ac.uk/english/rese...

Teachers and pupils thoughts on grammar. - YouTube Hear teachers and pupils from a north London primary school share their thoughts on grammar in education.

We spoke with teachers and pupils at a London primary school to hear their views on grammar in English lessons, subject terminology and the SATs exams.

📺Watch the full playlist of videos here:

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Do you have an example of the North American Indigenous people doing this?

AI systems are built on English – but not the kind most of the world speaks AI models too often produce a monolithic version of English that erases variation.

'Mainstream American English is entrenched in the digital infrastructure of the internet, in Silicon Valley’s corporate priorities, and in the data sets that fuel everything from autocorrect to AI-generated synthetic text.'

theconversation.com/ai-systems-a...

The English Grammar Day The ‘English Grammar Day’ is an annual event open to the public, with a wide range of speakers, to discuss the role of grammar in the English language curriculum.

Don't forget to book your tickets for the 2025 #EnglishGrammarDay Monday 7 July at the British Library in London, organised by UCL, Oxford and the British Library.

Check out the programme, bios, abstracts, and how to book here:

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#Grammar #EnglishLanguage #Linguistics

The British Council has launched a collection of 100 idioms, proverbs and phrases that shed light on the evolution of English.

www.britishcouncil.org/world-englis...

Sentence lego: using the building blocks of English grammar to serve composition and effect - National Association for the Teaching of English Leah Crawford outlines a simple approach to building sentences that’s designed to ensure that grammatical knowledge building is always in service to the choices that writers make. It’s easily adaptabl...

Sentence lego: Leah Crawford outlines a simple approach to building sentences that’s designed to ensure that grammatical knowledge building is always in service to the choices that writers make. #NATE #illumiNATE
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A language of beautiful impurity 'English is both a Germanic and a Latin language' - and that's its strength

'The linguistic purism movement peaked in the age of industrialisation, in a country losing its local traditions, songs and dialects, some of which still carried traces of the Anglo-Saxon past.'

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English Grammar Day is back for 2025 -- and tickets are on sale now!

Join us on Mon 7 July at the British Library for another great roster of speakers and discussion of all things grammar!

#EnglishGrammarDay

🔗Booking and more info:

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Aston University

Thanks @litdrive.bsky.social for a great #LitdriveCPD25

The speakers gave so much insight that informed my talk on grammar in the schools.

Secondary teachers are keen to use metalanguage to teach at sentence-level, but rarely supported to build on the grammar brought from primary.

A language of beautiful impurity 'English is both a Germanic and a Latin language' - and that's its strength

Love this from @edjameswest.bsky.social: 'How we'd talk if England had won in 1066': "In this world, lamentation is sorrowword, unanimous becomes sameheart and acceptable is replaced with thankworthy. Alcoholics Anonymous would be renamed as The Unnamed Overdrinkers" www.edwest.co.uk/p/a-language...

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Luke Pearce will be joining us at #LitdriveCPD25 this Saturday! Let us know if you are coming along! 🐝

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ICYMI yesterday - we are thrilled to be able to share the full speaker schedule for our national conference on 29 March at Aston University🐝

Find the list of speakers and session titles here so you can start planning your day! 🔈 https://buff.ly/40D00KH

What's next? The report commits to

'review the curriculum and how this assessment might better equip pupils to use these foundational building blocks fluently.'

&

'conduct closer analysis to diagnose each subject's specific problems and explore and test a range of solutions.'

In the assessment section, grammar is even singled out as a 'concern':

'the standalone end of key stage 2 assessment on grammar, punctuation and spelling might lead to the teaching of textual features in isolation at the expense of a sound understanding of reading and writing.'

HWR, in the section on 'breadth' at KS1-2, some schools report:

'a struggle to cover all content with sufficient depth [which] negatively affects pupils’ ability to master foundational concepts'

The breadth of grammar content may be seen as one of the culprits here

Some of the mood music is positive:

The curriculum will continue to be 'knowledge-rich' & learners should leave with 'in-depth' knowledge of English

Likewise, the fact that SATs won't be removed, makes the continuation of the study of grammar more likely (at primary at least)

What will happen to grammar in the curriculum review?

Now that the interim report is out, we can start to discern an answer...

Short thread 🧵

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