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THE WRITERS' ROOM
THE LEAGUE NEEDS YOU!
If you have a thing for rare words, exotic idioms and saucy slang... if obscure etymology is your gig... or if you care where language comes from, we'd like to hear from you. We are particularly keen to find non-English speakers to enrich the international flavour of our work.
At this stage, we are only asking for people to signal their interest. There'll be no pestering emails and nobody will be 'selling' anything. As a brain trust member, we'll simply let you know what we're working on and provide an easy way to contribute ideas and questions. Above all, registering an interest doesn't commit you to anything. But if it sounds interesting and you want to see what it's about, fill in the form.
If you have a thing for rare words, exotic idioms and saucy slang... if obscure etymology is your gig... or if you care where language comes from, we'd like to hear from you. We are particularly keen to find non-English speakers to enrich the international flavour of our work.
At this stage, we are only asking for people to signal their interest. There'll be no pestering emails and nobody will be 'selling' anything. As a Brain Trust member, we'll simply let you know what we're working on and provide an easy way to contribute ideas and questions. Above all, registering an interest doesn't commit you to anything. But if it sounds interesting and you want to see what it's about, fill in the form.
THE LEAGUE NEEDS YOU
JOIN THE LEAGUE'S BRAIN TRUST
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
To everyone who contributed to League of the Lexicon,
THANK YOU.
MICHAEL ADAMS (In Praise of Profanity)
DAVID ADGER (Language Unlimited)
SIMON AGER (Omniglot)
MARC ALEXANDER (Historical Thesaurus of English)
EMMA BACHE (Reading Between the Lines)
LAURA BAILEY (Order and structure in syntax)
PAUL BAKER (Fabulosa)
DANNY BATE (University of Edinburgh)
VICTOR BENNETT (Idiom Origins)
BARD BORCH (Signs of Civilisation)
EMILY BREWSTER (Merriam-Webster)
ROSS BULLEN (OCAD University)
JEREMY BUTTERFIELD (Fowler’s Dictionary)
EMMA BYRNE (Swearing is Good for You)
CLAIRE COCK-STARKEY (The Real McCoy & 149 Other Eponyms)
GASTON DORREN (Babel)
DENNIS DUNCAN (Book Parts)
MIGNON FOGARTY (Grammar Girl)
PATRICK FOOTE (Origin of Names, Words & Everything in Between)
ANU GARG (Wordsmith.org)
COULTER GEORGE (How Dead Languages Work)
PETER GILLIVER (OED)
MICHAEL GORDIN (Scientific Babel)
JONATHON GREEN (Green's Dictionary of Slang)
NEVILE GWYNNE (Gwynne's Grammar)
ORIN HARGREAVES (It’s Been Said Before)
TREVOR HARLEY (Talking the Talk)
HENRY HITCHINGS (The Language Wars)
NICOLE HOLLIDAY (Spectacular Vernacular)
SIMON HOROBIN (How English Became English)
ALEX JOHNSON (Improbable Libraries)
DAN MCINTYRE (Babel Magazine)
DANIEL MIDGLEY (Because Language)
STEVE MOCKUS (A Pocket Dictonary of the Vulgar Tongue)
LYNNE MURPHY (The Prodigal Tongue)
DANIEL NEWMAN (A-Z of Arabic-English Translation)
JUDY PARKINSON (I Before E)
DAVID PETERSON (The Art of Language Invention)
KATHY & ROSS PETRAS (That Doesn’t Mean What You Think it Means)
MICHAEL ROSEN (Former Children's Laureate)
MARK ROSENFELDER (The Conlanger Lexipedia)
SADIE RYAN (Accentricity)
BEN SCHOTT (Schott's Miscellany)
JANE SETTER (Your Voice Speaks Volumes)
JOHN SIMPSON (Dictionary of Modern Slang )
KORY STAMPER (Word by Word)
CAROLINE TAGGART (500 Words You Should Know)
LYNNE TRUSS (Eats, Shoots & Leaves)
ALEXANDER TULLOCH (It's All Greek)
HANA VIDEEN (The Wordhord)
JOHN WORNE (Chartered Institute of Linguistics)
KATIE WALES (A Dictionary of Stylistics)
PIP WILLIAMS (The Dictionary of Lost Words)
ROLF WIMAR (Silly Linguistics)
JOHN WORNE (Chartered Institute of Linguistics)
GABRIEL WYNER (Fluent Forever)
CHRISTOPHER WINN (Great British Street Names)
JESS ZEFARRIS (Once Upon A Word)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
MICHAEL ADAMS (In Praise of Profanity)
DAVID ADGER (Language Unlimited)
SIMON AGER (Omniglot)
MARC ALEXANDER (Historical Thesaurus of English)
EMMA BACHE (Reading Between the Lines)
LAURA BAILEY (Order and structure in syntax)
PAUL BAKER (Fabulosa)
DANNY BATE (University of Edinburgh)
VICTOR BENNETT (Idiom Origins)
BARD BORCH (Signs of Civilisation)
EMILY BREWSTER (Merriam-Webster)
ROSS BULLEN (OCAD University)
JEREMY BUTTERFIELD (Fowler’s Dictionary)
EMMA BYRNE (Swearing is Good for You)
CLAIRE COCK-STARKEY (The Real McCoy & 149 Other Eponyms)
GASTON DORREN (Babel)
DENNIS DUNCAN (Book Parts)
MIGNON FOGARTY (Grammar Girl)
PATRICK FOOTE (Origin of Names, Words & Everything in Between)
ANU GARG (Wordsmith.org)
COULTER GEORGE (How Dead Languages Work)
PETER GILLIVER (OED)
MICHAEL GORDIN (Scientific Babel)
JONATHON GREEN (Green's Dictionary of Slang)
NEVILE GWYNNE (Gwynne's Grammar)
ORIN HARGREAVES (It’s Been Said Before)
TREVOR HARLEY (Talking the Talk)
HENRY HITCHINGS (The Language Wars)
NICOLE HOLLIDAY (Spectacular Vernacular)
SIMON HOROBIN (How English Became English)
ALEX JOHNSON (Improbable Libraries)
DAN MCINTYRE (Babel Magazine)
DANIEL MIDGLEY (Because Language)
STEVE MOCKUS (A Pocket Dictonary of the Vulgar Tongue)
LYNNE MURPHY (The Prodigal Tongue)
DANIEL NEWMAN (A-Z of Arabic-English Translation)
JUDY PARKINSON (I Before E)
DAVID PETERSON (The Art of Language Invention)
KATHY & ROSS PETRAS (That Doesn’t Mean What You Think it Means)
MICHAEL ROSEN (Former Children's Laureate)
MARK ROSENFELDER (The Conlanger Lexipedia)
SADIE RYAN (Accentricity)
BEN SCHOTT (Schott's Miscellany)
JANE SETTER (Your Voice Speaks Volumes)
JOHN SIMPSON (Dictionary of Modern Slang )
KORY STAMPER (Word by Word)
CAROLINE TAGGART (500 Words You Should Know)
LYNNE TRUSS (Eats, Shoots & Leaves)
ALEXANDER TULLOCH (It's All Greek)
HANA VIDEEN (The Wordhord)
JOHN WORNE (Chartered Institute of Linguistics)
KATIE WALES (A Dictionary of Stylistics)
PIP WILLIAMS (The Dictionary of Lost Words)
ROLF WIMAR (Silly Linguistics)
JOHN WORNE (Chartered Institute of Linguistics)
GABRIEL WYNER (Fluent Forever)
CHRISTOPHER WINN (Great British Street Names)
JESS ZEFARRIS (Once Upon A Word)
To everyone who contributed to League of the Lexicon,
THANK YOU.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
MICHAEL ADAMS (In Praise of Profanity)
DAVID ADGER (Language Unlimited)
SIMON AGER (Omniglot)
MARC ALEXANDER (Historical Thesaurus of English)
EMMA BACHE (Reading Between the Lines)
LAURA BAILEY (Order and structure in syntax)
PAUL BAKER (Fabulosa)
DANNY BATE (University of Edinburgh)
VICTOR BENNETT (Idiom Origins)
BARD BORCH (Signs of Civilisation)
EMILY BREWSTER (Merriam-Webster)
ROSS BULLEN (OCAD University)
JEREMY BUTTERFIELD (Fowler’s Dictionary)
EMMA BYRNE (Swearing is Good for You)
CLAIRE COCK-STARKEY (The Real McCoy & 149 Other Eponyms)
GASTON DORREN (Babel)
DENNIS DUNCAN (Book Parts)
MIGNON FOGARTY (Grammar Girl)
PATRICK FOOTE (Origin of Names, Words & Everything in Between)
ANU GARG (Wordsmith.org)
COULTER GEORGE (How Dead Languages Work)
PETER GILLIVER (OED)
MICHAEL GORDIN (Scientific Babel)
JONATHON GREEN (Green's Dictionary of Slang)
NEVILE GWYNNE (Gwynne's Grammar)
ORIN HARGREAVES (It’s Been Said Before)
TREVOR HARLEY (Talking the Talk)
HENRY HITCHINGS (The Language Wars)
NICOLE HOLLIDAY (Spectacular Vernacular)
SIMON HOROBIN (How English Became English)
ALEX JOHNSON (Improbable Libraries)
DAN MCINTYRE (Babel Magazine)
DANIEL MIDGLEY (Because Language)
STEVE MOCKUS (A Pocket Dictonary of the Vulgar Tongue)
LYNNE MURPHY (The Prodigal Tongue)
DANIEL NEWMAN (A-Z of Arabic-English Translation)
JUDY PARKINSON (I Before E)
DAVID PETERSON (The Art of Language Invention)
KATHY & ROSS PETRAS (That Doesn’t Mean What You Think it Means)
MICHAEL ROSEN (Former Children's Laureate)
MARK ROSENFELDER (The Conlanger Lexipedia)
SADIE RYAN (Accentricity)
BEN SCHOTT (Schott's Miscellany)
JANE SETTER (Your Voice Speaks Volumes)
JOHN SIMPSON (Dictionary of Modern Slang )
KORY STAMPER (Word by Word)
CAROLINE TAGGART (500 Words You Should Know)
LYNNE TRUSS (Eats, Shoots & Leaves)
ALEXANDER TULLOCH (It's All Greek)
HANA VIDEEN (The Wordhord)
JOHN WORNE (Chartered Institute of Linguistics)
KATIE WALES (A Dictionary of Stylistics)
PIP WILLIAMS (The Dictionary of Lost Words)
ROLF WIMAR (Silly Linguistics)
JOHN WORNE (Chartered Institute of Linguistics)
GABRIEL WYNER (Fluent Forever)
CHRISTOPHER WINN (Great British Street Names)
JESS ZEFARRIS (Once Upon A Word)
To everyone who contributed to League of the Lexicon, THANK YOU.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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