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2026

LANGUAGE AND INNOVATION – THE POST-HUMAN FUTURE?original ↗
16 Sept 2026
P.O.V SEPTEMBER – A SUMMER RETROSPECTIVEoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2026
Misogyny, Masculinity and Messagingoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2026

2025

LAST WORDSoriginal ↗
22 Dec 2025
AUTUMNAL UPDATESoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2025
THE FIRST FEW WORDSoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2025
A GLOSSARY OF WEAPONISED* WORDS, BREXITSPEAK and THE TOXIC TERMINOLOGY OF POPULISMoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2025
THE SLANG AND NEW LANGUAGE ARCHIVEoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2025
QUIET QUITTING, TWO-TIMING OR DOUBLEDATING?original ↗
9 May 2025
GOING VIRAL, GOING GLOBALoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2025
INITIAL FINDINGSoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2025

2024

LANGUAGE REPLICATION – OR LANGUAGE INNOVATION?original ↗
12 Dec 2024
THE SEARCH FOR SLANGoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2024
THE DISCOURSE OF DIVISIONoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2024
LANGUAGE AND LONGEVITY – 2original ↗
2 Nov 2024
LANGUAGE AND LONGEVITY -1original ↗
23 Oct 2024
THE ART OF GIBBERISHoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2024
SLANG AT THE END OF SUMMERoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2024
SLANGS IN CONTENTIONoriginal ↗
7 May 2024
OF THE EASTER EGG: ANECDOTES AND ETYMOLOGIESoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2024
Long Januaryoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2024

2023

After language?original ↗
26 Oct 2023
X-COMMUNICATIONoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2023
NAMED AND SHAMEDoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2023
DOCTORS OF SPINoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2023
LEVITY – OR LEVY-T?original ↗
13 Jan 2023
LANGUAGE, ‘AESTHETICS’ AND INNOVATION IN 2022 – THE ROLE OF GEN Zoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2023

2022

THE COUNTESS RECONSIDEREDoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2022
OF PRODIGIES AND PORTENTS…original ↗
16 Sept 2022
THE BIG HEAToriginal ↗
8 Aug 2022
A ‘PUERILE’ RACE?original ↗
25 Jul 2022
The Word(s) on the Street(s)original ↗
26 May 2022
Tick Tock, TikTokoriginal ↗
16 May 2022
DO TRY TO KEEP UPoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2022
CALIFORNIFICATIONoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2022
2022 – THE STORY SO FARoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2022

2021

UNWRAPPING GIFTS – at the first CHRISTMASoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2021
THE OTHER ‘P-WORD’ – Postmodernism comes of age – againoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2021
FAMILECT AGAINoriginal ↗
19 Oct 2021
SLANG NOW – the Language of UK Youth in 2021original ↗
1 Oct 2021
An Antique Perspective: Slang in 1997original ↗
15 Sept 2021
One day in Julyoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2021
ACRONYMS – ALL IN THE LINE OF DUTYoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2021
ALL THE YOUNG DUDES: CAN KIDS SAFELY LEARN…SLANG??original ↗
13 Apr 2021
A DUCHESS SPEAKS …and endures trial by tabloidoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2021
‘WOKE’ NOT WOKEoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2021

2020

LAST WORDS (ON 2020)?original ↗
21 Dec 2020
GANGS, SLANGS – AND DRILLoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2020
WE CAN BE HEROESoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2020
The End of Summer in Locktownoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2020
DECOLONISING THE DICTIONARYoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2020
#CORONASPEAK 3 – the mixed messagesoriginal ↗
21 May 2020
#CORONASPEAK – the language of Covid-19 goes viral – 2original ↗
15 Apr 2020
#CORONASPEAK – the language of Covid-19 goes viraloriginal ↗
31 Mar 2020
THE LANGUAGE OF PROTEST 2 – the art(s) of subversionoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2020
(IN)EFFECTIVE INVECTIVE – the language of protestoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2020
TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATIONoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2020

2019

THE BREXICON – updated and translatedoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2019
DE-CODING SUPER SATURDAY’S BREXIT MOMENToriginal ↗
19 Oct 2019
…NO WORD OF A LIE…?original ↗
17 Oct 2019
A FRESH START – the lingo of the local(e)original ↗
4 Oct 2019
READ MY LIPS – a Catchphrase is foreveroriginal ↗
1 Oct 2019
BEWARE BIGWIGS – and BIGWIGS BEWAREoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2019
…PUNCTUATED BY RUDENESSoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2019
NATIVISATIONS, PEJORATIVES, INKHORNS AND MULTISYLLABICSoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2019
I ventured to Love Island…as you dooriginal ↗
6 Jun 2019
CODESWITCHING, STYLESHIFTING – AND STEPPING OFForiginal ↗
9 Apr 2019
KNIFE CRIME AND GANG SLANGoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2019
ABSOLUTION? ABSOLUTELY! SHROVE TUESDAY NOW AND THENoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2019
MOCKNEY, ESTUARY – AND THE QUEEN’S ENGLISHoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2019
‘POOR TOM’S A-COLD’original ↗
24 Jan 2019

2018

THE REAL WORDS OF THE YEAR – 2018original ↗
12 Dec 2018
CHRISTMAS, ON THE CARDSoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2018
POOR GUY – a Fawkesian miscellanyoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2018
THE VAMPIRE AND ITS LINEAGEoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2018
AT WAR WITH ‘ACRONYMS’ – TMI via TLAoriginal ↗
15 Oct 2018
AUTUMN FALLS TODAYoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2018
GAMMON – UP AGAINST THE WALLoriginal ↗
15 May 2018
A DRILL DICTIONARYoriginal ↗
19 Apr 2018
IN ONE BASKET – OF THE EGG, AT EASTERoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2018
‘BAD’ LANGUAGE RE-REVISITEDoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2018
BADMOUTHING LADIES?!original ↗
17 Jan 2018

2017

YULETIDE EMBLEMSoriginal ↗
22 Dec 2017
BAD BUZZWORDS!?original ↗
21 Nov 2017
STILL BEWITCHEDoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2017
HALLOWE’EN CREATURES – ORIGINS AND ETYMOLOGIESoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2017
SUPERSTITIOUS? – Good luck with thatoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2017
PIRATICAL PATTERoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2017
POSH?!original ↗
6 Sept 2017
SLANG, ‘PATOIS’ AND – ONCE AGAIN – THE CASE OF ‘MLE’original ↗
26 Aug 2017
EMOJI – one or two thoughts, and a source listoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2017
THE ART OF BUSINESS JARGONoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2017
REAL TALK – ‘SLANG’original ↗
10 Aug 2017
The ‘M’ in ‘MLE’ – Youth Slang’s Originsoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2017
The N-word Yet Againoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2017
SOUNDS, SENSITIVITIES – and CELLAR DOORSoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2017
BUY-TO-LEAVEoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2017
NEURODIVERSITY – and NEUROLEADERSHIPoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2017
A term whose time has come?original ↗
1 Jun 2017
A SINGLE CURRENCY? – the status of English post-Juncker and post-Europeoriginal ↗
24 May 2017
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