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@tweetolectology.bsky.social

Tweetolectology project at Oxford and Bern

Language and geography @tweetolectology.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Tweetolectology has family! Postdoc/doctoral positions in language variation/change available on Curlew: Census of Urban & Rural Lang in England & Wales with @davidbritain.bsky.social @david1willis.bsky.social, @adrianleemann.bsky.social @paulfoulkes.bsky.social in Bern/Oxford/York www.curlew.info

curlew.info

CURLEW - Census of Urban and Rural Language in England and Wales

A comprehensive sociolinguistic survey documenting dialect variation across England and Wales

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Language and geography @tweetolectology.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

'Tin' of food or 'can' of food? Tin wins everywhere, but there's a classic hierarchical pattern with can spreading from London, Edinburgh and Birmingham. The northeast of England holds out with tin. #englishdialects

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Language and geography @tweetolectology.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Welcome to 2026 everybody! Hope you had fun at New Year. Or should that be at New Years?

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