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Sounds & Syllables @jasonwade.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Rewriting Sounds & Syllables <ce> and <se> endings units. Screw you, Anglo-Norman scholars.

Sounds & Syllables @jasonwade.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

never say never, but I stopped them at 200 as they were taking so much of my time and fewer and fewer people were downloading them.

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Sounds & Syllables @jasonwade.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

True if you a Britta or similar - they remove little. But a ZeroWater filter removes everything. The downside is that the filters are pricier and you need to remineralise the water. I use the mineral set from Apax Labs. If you must use bottled, apparently Volvic is one of the better for coffee.

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Sounds & Syllables @jasonwade.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

It depends on the brand of water. Many have too much mineral content. And the plastic. Just buy a filter jug. The one by ZeroWater makes great tasting coffee.

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Sounds & Syllables @jasonwade.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

OK, this is going to the last in the series - at least for now. I've been making these for 4 years now and it's becoming more and more of a chore than something enjoyable. I might post them periodically as the whim takes me, so you might see more in the future. 🙂

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Sounds & Syllables @jasonwade.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Congratulations, Chris. Well deserved. 🙂

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Sounds & Syllables @jasonwade.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Such beautiful food at Core today. 🙂

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Sounds & Syllables @jasonwade.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I’m really looking forward to getting my paws on this. Chris’ last book is probably the best all-round primer on teaching ready. I’m sure this will be equally good.

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Sounds & Syllables @jasonwade.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

It sounds perfectly fine to me (and doesn’t feel like an Americanism). I’m fairly sure that’s because I grew up hearing it in Lincolnshire.

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Sounds & Syllables @jasonwade.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

It’s definitely still used here.

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Sounds & Syllables @jasonwade.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I was already using the News feed, but I don’t find it particularly useful - and it’s often late to the party. It’s often the individual journalists and commentators that are first to break things and those tend not to be on the News feed.

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Sounds & Syllables @jasonwade.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Same issue. Checked Twitter a few days ago and saw S Korea trending. Not a peep here, so thought I'd better follow more news outlets & journos. Since then, that's all that comes up in my feed despite being a tiny fraction of the accounts that I follow, presumably because they have more followers.

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Julia Shayto @phonicsandstuff.com · 02/12/2024

These look really cool! I like the layout.

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Sounds & Syllables @jasonwade.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Just arrived in North Wales for a day of spelling goodness. 🙂

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Stunning 2,000 year-old Hellenistic mosaic glass bowl looking like a Starry Night! 💫 Tranlucent dark blue glass with opaque white spirals. From Canosa di Puglia. Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany 📷 by me #AncientBlueSky 🏺 #Archaeology

A hemispherical bowl made of mosaic cast glass. Translucent dark blue with opaque white spirals. There is slight corrosion and weathering of the glass. The bowl has been restored. Height: 7.2 cm, diameter: 13.1 cm.

The effect of the museum lighting shining through the blue glass with white swirls brings to mind the painting ‘Starry Night’ by Vincent Van Gogh.

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 01/12/2024

For the end of November, shortly before the eleventh month became the twelfth, I wrote a piece all about those two numbers. Why does English have the words 'eleven' and 'twelve'? How do they relate to 'one' and 'two'? And what does Lithuanian have to do with all this? dannybate.com/2024/11/30/o...

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Oneteen, twoteen? The origins of ‘eleven’ and ‘twelve’

Reading time: 5 minutes November, at time of writing, is ticking out its final few hours, and with them, the eleventh month of 2024 is giving way to the twelfth. Aside from the awkward mismatch in …

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Sounds & Syllables @jasonwade.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Thank you, Jodi. Hopefully, I start to get enough engagement here that I can quit the bad place altogether. 🙂

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JulieE @jenevoldsen.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Thank you for these, @jasonwade.bsky.social !

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Sounds & Syllables @jasonwade.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

You’re welcome. Hopefully more folks will follow suit. 🙂

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Sounds & Syllables @jasonwade.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I think so. I know I don’t talk about those kinds of worries very much, but those thoughts are Neri far away.

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Aidan Severs @aidansevers.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I've decided BlueSky is a warts n all kinda place so in that spirit I'm sharing a link to today's LinkedIn post which is essentially a plea for work. www.linkedin.com/posts/aidan-... I thought I'd feel really awful sharing it but some really cool people have been super supportive so I feel ok.

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Aidan Severs on LinkedIn: #opentowork

Hi everyone! Time for a bit of honesty... The diary for the rest of November and December is looking sparse, and I'd love to work so I don't go crazy or…

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Sounds & Syllables @jasonwade.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I’ve been there myself, and at times have quiet periods too, so know how this can feel. It can be very stressful indeed. So sharing and good luck. I hope things work out for you.

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Sounds & Syllables @jasonwade.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

It’s useful for children to know the function of conjs: (causal, contrasting, conditional, etc.), and how they can be used within sentences (between clauses, before both clauses), but the distinction between coord and sub is blurry. I’d’ argue ‘for’ has as many sub qualities as it does coord.

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Sounds & Syllables @jasonwade.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

Grammar is contested but the only conjunctions that seem to meet all the requirements to be coordinating conjunctions are ‘and’, ‘but’ and ‘or’. 🙂

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Sounds & Syllables @jasonwade.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

But in principle, I think summer is better. Time to text things out and potentially iron out kinks before launching more widely in autumn.

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Sounds & Syllables @jasonwade.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

Add to that staff mobility. I’ve increasingly been asked to shift booked training from summer to autumn because of staff turnover.

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