Jane Setter explores how and why some people’s accents may change over time, and what that means for their identity.
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Poems about places and pasts: an extract from ‘On Magnetism’
Steven Matthews is professor of English Literature, University of Reading. His latest book of poetry, On Magnetism, was launched this week. It features poems about loss and remembrance, about the relation…Read More >
English Language Day: 100 years of the English Pronouncing Dictionary
By Prof Jane Setter, Professor of Phonetics Apologies for the huge understatement, but the English language has changed rather a lot since 1917. This blog was written to mark English…Read More >