Rory Turnbull

Yes! This one feels odd to me because "parent" is a common, everyday word, while"-nym" words are higher in register. That's just my feeling though, there's nothing objectively wrong with the word or with language mixing.

Why Taylor Swift’s Accent Has Changed And yours might too.

second dialect acquisition in The Atlantic! I'm quoted in this piece (along w/@abbyjwalker.bsky.social & other linguists) #linguistics

It can difficult to resist the Germanic urge to express everything in a single compound word 😂

It's a little awkward --- the language mixing makes a bit of a register clash. The phrase "parental name" might work just as well?

So awful. This is like when a Chicago-based company put a trademark on "Aloha Poke"
www.foodbeast.com/news/aloha-p...

Sturgeon's law - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeo...

Me: I'm hip and in touch with youth trends
Spotify wrapped: your most played artist was Bach and you have the musical tastes of a 73 year old 💀

This is so fascinating, I'd love to read this.

wtf I am so old lmao

📈 Listen up!
💡 There is a considerable gap in the field of historical linguistics re the diachronic study of tone.
💡 The latest SI of 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢 brings together contributions from linguists specializing in different regions & language families who work on 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲:
doi.org/10.1075/dia....

Ah, thanks, I was struggling to think of a use case

A pair of scissors with five cutting blades.

Looks like the lads who design men's razors have branched out to scissors

Cabbage is red,*
Violets are blue.*
(*Actually purple,
But what can you do?)

Assuming onset maximisation, we see it in _exclusive_ too. I think that this gap is pretty clearly an accident of history rather than a systematic grammatical restriction.

"Sorry, I have to duck out of this meeting"

Both, typically. But not fixed-term positions like postdocs or a 12-month teaching gig.

They haven't had the time since 1472 to update the map, give them a little grace please

In US academic hiring, typically there would be first-round interviews with maybe 10 candidates, after which they'd invite the top ~3 for a campus visit (where they give a talk and are interviewed further, meet everyone, etc). So, two rounds.

First-round interviews at the LSA annual meeting in January used to be quite common, but they've mostly been replaced by video calls nowadays.

Petition to replace the phrase "taking coals to Newcastle" with "taking sausage rolls to Newcastle"

Ah, I forgot to give the whole wingdings story in the lecture! It gets harder to explain every year - "imagine a time before emojis" 😂

People do this in France too, so perhaps it's a continent vs UK thing? It feels the same as saying hello to the shopkeeper when you enter.

We're excited to re-launch the journal "Innovations in Linguistics Education", a forum for evidence-based research in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) in linguistics! We open for submissions in January 2026.
journals.ed.ac.uk/innovations/

Yes, shouting at seagulls actually works, scientists confirm This is one of the few times shouting might actually help.

There is so much fun & interesting language-related research coming out recently.

A fascinating new study from the University of Exeter shows that herring gulls don’t just react to what we say — they react to how we say it.

🔗 tinyurl.com/mta7ba9f

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#langsky #linguistics #language

Uhh, that's actually my emotional support chocolate

Me neither. I suppose our current system front-loads the effort to childhood learning.

Oh yes, you even mentioned this earlier! If we were feeling fancy we could flip the 8 to represent infinity 😂

Can you even get all the way up to 110 with only three blocks? Highest I could figure out was up to 87 (with blocks 123456, 012789, 034567), assuming we display only the blocks we need.

I'm not sure this is a huge problem - we understand other dialects in speech, and doing it in writing is something authors often already do in non-standard ways. "Marry needed a pin for her riding" is interpretable, as is "luck at hair now", with practice.

Famously litigious throughout time and space