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Laura Bailey @linguistlaura.bsky.social · 9h

We're hosting this event at @unikent.bsky.social at the end of the month! So excited to hear all the goss about transcribing the House of Lords bickering! It's free and there is wine, so I'm in #linguistics #language

Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 6d

📣 The Babel Lecture 2025 - 4 weeks to go...
🧑‍🏫 John Vice - The work of Hansard, and why it matters
🗓️ @kent.ac.uk, Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm

🎟️ Book your free seat at www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...

Babel Lecture 2025: John Vice on Hansard

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 1d

And if you don't win, hey, that's a cool essay you can post, publish, or submit elsewhere.

(As far as I can tell, anyway.)

If you're an undergrad in linguistics, anthro, cog sci, STS, comms, etc., think about submitting!

Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 1d

✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could win publication in Babel!

📖 Get inspired by previous winner Isabella Mandis: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Babel article: Rethinking the biases of language and society

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 1d

✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could win publication in Babel!

📖 Get inspired by previous winner Isabella Mandis: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 6d

📣 The Babel Lecture 2025 - 4 weeks to go...
🧑‍🏫 John Vice - The work of Hansard, and why it matters
🗓️ @kent.ac.uk, Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm

🎟️ Book your free seat at www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 8d

🗓️ Happy International Translation Day 2025!

📖 To celebrate, read all about a Baltic haven for translators in the latest Babel: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Babel article: A Baltic haven for translators

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 9d

✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could be published in Babel

🏆 Here's previous winner Emma Jewell on Romansch: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...

📜 See pinned post for this year's guidelines

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 14d

📅 A reminder that National Linguistics Day is coming up in November! @linguisticshq.bsky.social
📚 Get a free set of Babels for your school, college or library to celebrate

📧 Contact [email protected]

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 15d

🗓️ Happy International Day of Sign Languages!

📖 In Babel No4, Kateryna Pavlyuk points out that BSL is "an independent method of communication, in no way inferior to spoken language"

🔗 Read in full at babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 16d

✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could be published in Babel

🏆 Here's previous winner Claudia Bensi on Dutch and American English: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...

📜 See pinned post for this year's guidelines

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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 28d

Attention young linguists! @BabelZine.bsky.social is running their 11th-annual Young Writer’s Competition! If you’d like to get your writing published in Babel and win a free year’s subscription, consider submitting your work! Submission details below.

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 27d

🥇 Babel's Young Writers' Competition is now open!
🇰🇷 Here's inspiration from Niamh Mulholland, who won for her article on Konglish: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...

📌 See pinned post for competition guidelines

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · Sep 5

🤼 Babel Young Writers' Competition - get printed in Babel!
🏆 Here's inspiration from previous winner @danielstrogen.bsky.social:
tinyurl.com/4hk9sxpm

Babel Young Writers' Competition guidelines

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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · Sep 3

How to make the [s] and [z] sounds, from @BabelZine.bsky.social

“The [s] and [z] sounds are called alveolar fricatives. [s] is voiceless, and [z] is voiced. They are made by the formation of a very narrow gap between the alveolar ridge (the bumpy ridge behind the top front teeth) ...

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · Sep 4

🗓️ 8 weeks til the Babel Lecture 2025!
🧑‍🏫 Join us for John Vice's talk on Hansard, Thu 30 Oct at @unikent.bsky.social

🎟️ Book your free tickets at www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/bab...

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · Sep 3

👩‍🏫 Free Babels for teachers!
📚 Fancy some free copies for your classroom? Get in touch at [email protected]

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · Sep 2

🙋 Babel asks a linguist: Why is falsifiability important?
📖 Eloy Romero Muñoz explains in our latest issue

Ask a linguist: Why is falsifiability important?

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · Sep 1

😛 @janesetter.bsky.social looks at tongue piercings & lisps...

📖 Learn all about it in our Autumn issue, available at babelzine.co.uk

Giving voice a voice: Lisps, groovy whistles, and piercing sounds

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · Aug 29

✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic & you could win...
📖 Publication in Babel
📚 A year's subscription!
📘 Our Linguistic Lexicon book!

🐦 Get inspiration from Benjamin Hong on whistled languages: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Babel article: Whistling's way with words

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · Aug 28

📣 The Babel Lecture 2025!
🧑‍🏫 John Vice on Hansard, the report of proceedings in UK parliament
📖 Learn about Hansard at parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/lords-library/history-of-hansard.pdf

🗓️ @unikentlive, Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm
🎟️ Book your free seat at kent.ac.uk/whats-on/babel-lecture-2025

John Vice and Stephen Farrell on the history of Hansard

Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · Aug 15

🚣‍♂️ OTD 1620 - the Mayflower sets sail from Southampton to the New World
📖 In Babel No46, Dan McIntyre looks at how a new English followed...

The complete and utter history of English: English goes international

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · Aug 8

📝 Friday quiz! @logological.bsky.social tests your Catalan chrononomy
📖 Find the answers inside the brand new Babel No52...

📚 Print & digital issues available at babelzine.co.uk

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · Aug 7

📖 Inside the brand new Babel...
🇮🇪 Sarah O'Connor looks at the history and current status of Irish

📚 Print & digital issues available at babelzine.co.uk

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · Aug 1

✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist topic to win:
📖 Publication in Babel
📚 A year's subscription
📘 Linguistic Lexicon book

🏆 Here are some previous winners for inspiration

📜 Guidelines at babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Advert-Young-Writers-Competition-No54.pdf

Babel Young Writers' Competition 2025-26

Babel article: The language of the birds

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · Jul 31

✍️ Write a book review for Babel!

Review opportunities:
📗 Tracy Darnton - My Brother Is an Avocado; My Sister Is a Treasure
📘 Emma Humphries - Linguistic Insecurities and Authorities
📕 Rupert Gavin - Amorous or Loving?

📧 Get in touch at [email protected]

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Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · Jul 30

📖 Inside Babel's Autumn issue...
🗓️ Rebecca Mitchell looks forward to National Linguistics Day 2025

🔗 Read more at babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/No52-Article-National-Linguistics-Day-2025.pdf

Babel article: National Linguistics Day 2025

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