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Julie Moore

@lexicojules.bsky.social
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ELT materials writer, lexicographer & general word fan. Enjoys a #StetWalk & taking photos.

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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I agree it's spookily good. My main issue is the lack of transparency, accountability, consistency, reliability of AI ... & the idea that humans can just 'do a quick check/edit' doesn't work without the hard graft of detailed corpus research behind that checking ... which takes time/expertise.
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Well, yes, BUT ... and the 'but' is too long to go into here but it may end up as a blog post ... watch this space ...
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
TFW, you've had a slightly frustrating disrupted week jumping around between bitty bits of work & feeling unproductive, so you settle down to do some nice, straightforward #lexicography & the next word on your list is "waggle" 😊 #amcompiling
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
⌛2 weeks till the deadline for proposals for the 2025 AS Hornby Dictionary Research Awards (ASHDRA) on 30 April. You've still got time to get together a proposal for a research project related to #dictionaries in #ELT More details: tinyurl.com/565b4r25
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Honestly, I sometimes think #lexicography work should come with counselling. I just had to do a corpus search for the phrase "vomit sth up" ... it was pretty nasty ... #amcompiling
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philipjkerr.bsky.social @philipjkerr.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Taking AI literacy seriously. adaptivelearninginelt.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/t...
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Taking AI literacy seriously
English language teacher education, says the British Council (Edmett et al. 2024: 21), ‘must include a focus on AI literacy’ and ‘teachers also need to develop their learners AI literacy’. This rep…
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Today, I'm joining @societyofauthors.bsky.social protesting against the use of pirated works by Meta to train their AI models. According to LibGen, 8 of my books have been stolen without permission or compensation. This is illegal - it's plain and simple theft. #BookThieves
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
A sunny #StetWalk to soak up some spring rays on a bench ☀️
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Graham Hall @ghinwhitleybay.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I'm 'absolutely delighted' (i.e., really chuffed) that "Method and Postmethod in Language Teaching" by, erm, me, will be discussed and explored as part of this forthcoming ITDI course moderated by Scott Thornbury... www.linkedin.com/posts/intern...
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#elt #languageteaching #teacherdevelopment #postmethod #scottthornbury… | International Teacher Development Institute
🌟 Are you ready to rethink methods in language teaching? Join an international group of teachers, and Scott Thornbury, for an in-depth exploration of Graham…
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
TFW, you type "emphathize" and know it looks wrong, but can't quite work out why 🤣
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
💥6 weeks left to apply for 2025 AS Hornby Dictionary Research Awards (ASHDRA) - deadline 30 April If you've got a research idea strongly connected to dictionaries & ELT check the website for more info: tinyurl.com/3y58s7fy
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
A frustrating #StetWalk this morning, took my glass bottle to the deli to get a milk refill ... only to find they'd run out. Had to resort to plastic milk from the supermarket but then argued with the self-checkout about the empty glass bottle in my shopping bag! At least there were magnolias ...
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Cold, but blue skies and waving daffs outside Bristol Cathedral on a morning #StetWalk to meet a pal for coffee
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EngLangBlog @englangblog.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Lots here for discussion around language, identity, occupation and more. Swearing is a way of cutting though the noise, helping regulate emotion and part of a performance of identity, according to this piece. theconversation.com/banning-swea...
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Banning swearing in Formula One could be bad for drivers – a linguist explains
A swearing ban risks making team radio feel sanitised and staged, diminishing the very sense of access that made it compelling and exciting in the first place.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 04/03/2025
You only have to cross one country to get from Norway to North Korea.
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Graham Hall @ghinwhitleybay.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Applications open for Hornby Trust MEd TESOL scholarship to support the teaching of English to refugees. For: experienced teachers who hold/have held refugee status, and currently teach English to refugees/asylum seekers in the UK Details: www.hornby-trust.org.uk/the-call-for...
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The call for applications for the 2025-26 Refugee MEd TESOL Scholarship is open! - Hornby Trust
The Hornby Trust is offering a MEd TESOL scholarship, in partnership with University of Exeter, to support the teaching of English to refugees. This is a full scholarship and provides living costs, tu...
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
TFW, you're writing something about usage labels in dictionaries and find yourself looking up examples of words in a whole bunch of dictionaries (on and offline) to see how they label them ... then realize your search history's going to look really dodgy #lexicographylife
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I think this may be a British thing ... we tend to use 'girlfriend' to (almost exclusively) describe a romantic partner, not just a friend who happens to be female (and WAG is a BrE term)
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I just went to find the link to join this and realized I registered but was never sent a link 😕 Hope it goes/went well anyway.
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I'd like to tune in online, but the link takes me to what looks like a ticket for the in-person event. Do I guess that if I sign up, I'll get sent the online link anyway?
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Still grey and pain-aggravatingly cold out there, so just a short #StetWalk to admire the hellebores in Royal Fort Gardens
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Not new, but "transactional" could be having a bit of a moment ... (trend from English Trends corpus, 2014-now)
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Catkins against grey skies on a very short perfunctory #StetWalk
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Lexicographic catch of the day: I just very nearly uploaded a new entry with a typo in the headword ... 'pickled pink' instead of 'tickled pink' 🤣 #amcompiling
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Okay, I'll try & tune in with tea #3 ...
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Paweł Szudarski @pawelszudarski.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Call for papers: BAAL SIG Vocabulary Studies Annual Conference 2025 Teaching, Learning, and Assessing Vocabulary in Multilingual Contexts, 28-30 May 2025, University of Edinburgh, UK A title and a 300-word abstract should be submitted tinyurl.com/BAALVOCABSIG... by the 19th of February 2025.
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Registered. Although I'm not sure how ready I'll be for grammar first thing on a Monday morning 😉
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Funding opportunities for #ELT dictionary research: 📢 Receive up to £15,000 from the A. S. Hornby Educational Trust for ELT-related dictionary research projects. 🔎 Details: tinyurl.com/565b4r25 ✒️ Apply by April 30, 2025. #Dictionaries #Research #ASHornbyEducationalTrust #ASHDRA
Primary school children in South Africa sitting at wooden desks in a classroom working in pairs using tablets, overseen by a female, adult researcher. Hornby logo top right corner. Text bottom left reads: Apply now! AS Hornby Dictionary Research Awards
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Bas Aarts @englishgrammar.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This film should be fun to watch. It comes out on the Americans' National Grammar Day, 4 March. www.rebelwithaclause.com @grammartable.bsky.social #EnglishGrammarDay #grammar #EnglishGrammar
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Rebel with a Clause documentary film by Brandt Johnson starring Ellen Jovin
A grammar guru takes her pop-up grammar advice stand on a road trip across all 50 US states to show that comma fights can bring us closer together in a divided time.
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Truly discombobulated by pain today, but a short #StetWalk with blue skies and crocuses helped fleetingly
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Crocuses about to unfurl under a tree and glorious tulips in a shop on this morning's #StetWalk
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Snowdrops on today's #StetWalk
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Deborah Tomkins @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
A wonderful #booklaunch last week for my prizewinning novella #Aerth, at @stanfordsbristol.bsky.social - thank you to all!
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Graham Hall @ghinwhitleybay.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
And here's the online application form(s) for the Hornby Scholarships scheme 2025/6... www.hornby-trust.org.uk/ma-tesol-sch...
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MEd TESOL Scholarships - Hornby Trust
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Graham Hall @ghinwhitleybay.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
*Webinar Recording - Hornby Trust: Master’s Degree UK Scholarships (TESOL)*: further detail and Q&As for those interested in applying If you were not able to attend the Hornby Educational Trust Scholarship Webinar today, the recording can be found here www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEQq...
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Hornby Educational Trust Scholarship Webinar 28.01.2025
YouTube video by Harry Kuchah Kuchah
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I was just impressed that a person (and possibly a young person, given this was in a student area) still actually had a print dictionary to abandon ...
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Words as the glue that holds the world together ...?
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
A rather sad sight on today's #StetWalk - a dictionary randomly wedged between a wall and a lamppost 🤷🏼
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
A lovely evening listening to @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social talk about her new book "Aerth" - looking forward to get started on it #amreading
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I love my handwriting and spent hours experimenting to get my style. It still gets commented on. Although as someone with a pain condition that can make handwriting painful, I'm quite releived that I don't have to do as much nowadays.
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Graham Hall @ghinwhitleybay.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
A.S. Hornby Trust: The Trust is pleased to be offering 10 Hornby Scholarships to study for the Master’s degree in TESOL at the University of Exeter, UK, for the 2025-26 academic year. (deadline 26th Feb) www.hornby-trust.org.uk/ma-tesol-sch...
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MEd TESOL Scholarships - Hornby Trust
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
An afternoon #StetWalk to meet up with a fellow #ELT writer pal for coffee & a natter. A grey damp kinda day, but I came back down a different street & spotted this burst of colour on the outside of a house:
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
New #ASHDRA dictionary research reports now up on Hornby Trust website 2 projects developed & trialled new resources in very different ELT contexts - for Physics students in Oman & primary schools in South Africa Scroll down to download full reports or single-page summaries: tinyurl.com/3y58s7fy
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
"Merry-making" ... hooray!
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
A gloriously bright, frosty morning #StetWalk ... I planned to go out for maybe an hour & stayed out all morning. What's the point in being #freelance if you can't make the most of a beautiful day?!
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Lynne Murphy @lynneguist.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
The Separated by a Common Language UK-to-US Word of the Year 2024 is: FORTNIGHT. With thanks to @helenzaltzman.bsky.social, @byagoda.bsky.social, Taylor Swift & Jack Antonoff separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2024/12/uk-t...
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UK-to-US Word of the Year 2024: fortnight
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
My cold's on its way out & I didn't want to provoke renewed snifffles by trudging around in the drizzle, so just a mini #StetWalk to & from a bit of cafe-working:
The view from a table in a cafe with a cup of coffee, a pastry on a plate and a tablet on the table. A bar and waitress on the background.
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
A grey, drizzly Saturday #StetWalk along the harbour
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Julie Moore @lexicojules.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
An eerie, foggy #StetWalk - well worth getting out despite a streaming cold:
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