Andrew Szmelter @szmelly.bsky.social I can’t decide whether or not I like gazpacho
North East Vernacular: Dialect Cultures of Northumbria @northeastvernacula.bsky.social Michael Pearce is the author of North East Vernacular English Online (EUP) and a Visiting Fellow in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. Find out more here https://northeastvernacular.carrd.co/
@mmmodernist.bsky.social @mmmodernist.bsky.social
Editorial Red Pencil of Doom @kchew.bsky.social Editor. Word person. Bookstore aficionado and occasional bookseller. You say I’m a nerd like it’s a bad thing.
Lynne Murphy @lynneguist.bsky.social US linguist in UK. University of Sussex.
Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lynneguist
Blog: http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/lynneguist
Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com Lexicographer. The F-Word (new edition Nov. ’24!), sfdictionary.com, ex-OED, coder (mainly Perl and Python), Threesome Tollbooth #cocktail bar manager, adjunct @ Columbia. "Appealingly obsessive" — NYT
Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social OED researcher. Professor, film and American Studies. Writer. I expect to die without seeing the Jets win the Super Bowl.
EURALEX @euralex.bsky.social European Association for Lexicography. Leading professional #association for people working in #lexicography and related fields. euralex.org
Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social Unfiltered news, independent debate & loud music. Home to ADTV, the Vibestream Radio Network (Rock, Punk, La Cantina, Copperhead) & Dogtuuurd memes.
We build the pipelines. We break the narrative.
Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social Sometime English professor, JHU and UMN; past president, Dictionary Society of North America. Victorian literature and art, book illustration, speech acts, interpretation, law. Macaulay and English in India (Routledge, 2026). https://z.umn.edu/M-H.
Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social Writer of dictionaries and books about nerd fights at the dictionary factory (WORD BY WORD [2017]; TRUE COLOR [2026]; more TK). niila myaamia. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2106554/kory-stamper/
Rachel A. Fletcher @rafletcher.bsky.social Leiden University. Working on the reception of Old English in 19th-century Europe. Dictionary enthusiast.
HEL (History of the English Language) on the Web @helontheweb.bsky.social Shares the latest news about HEL. Posts by Dr Ayumi Miura (Associate Professor @utokyoofficial.bsky.social; she/her), who runs the website 'HEL on the Web' (2009-): https://sites.google.com/view/helontheweb/
Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social Word person; tenor; European; British; English (Northern, and not a monkey); blissfully partnered; some other things. Views my own.