Show notes for Episode 9

Welcome to Episode 9 of the Lexis podcast in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about:

Good and bad articles about language, featuring an absolute peeve-fest from James Innes-Smith in The Spectator and a much better one from Stan Carey on emoji panics on the MacMillan Dictionary blog.

We also talk to author, lexicographer, slang expert and visiting language consultant at King’s College, London, Tony Thorne about new words and lots more!

Tony’s Twitter page: https://twitter.com/tonythorne007

Tony Thorne’s King’s College page: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/foundations/tony-thorne/who-is-tony-thorne

Language and Innovation: Tony’s blog which chronicles much of his recent work on new words: https://language-and-innovation.com/

Coronaspeak: #CORONASPEAK – the language of Covid-19 goes viral

Kate Burridge and Howard Manns onn pandemic vocabulary: 'Iso', 'boomer remover' and 'quarantini': how coronavirus is changing our language

Language in the News

Here’s the article from The Spectator that we analysed: War of the words: have we stopped making sense?

(Hat Tip to Havant and South Downs College for the link to the Spectator article: https://twitter.com/HSDCEngLang)

We also made reference to this article by Lindsay Johns: Ghetto grammar robs the young of a proper voice

If you want to see some responses to the Lindsay Johns article, many of which are relevant to the Spectator one too, try here: EngLangBlog: Ghetto grammar and here: Thoughts on Lindsay Johns and 'Ghetto Grammar'

We liked this article by Stan Carey, though: Will emojis ruin English?

Find more of Stan’s writing through here: https://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/author/stan-carey and here: https://twitter.com/StanCarey

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Contributors

Matthew Butler

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthewbutlerwy

Lisa Casey

blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)

Dan Clayton

blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog)

Jacky Glancey

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey

Music: Freenotes