Emma Humphries (she/her)

@emhumps.bsky.social

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Researcher working on prescriptivism in popular culture. Interested in language attitudes and language policy. And Cruising with Jane McDonald.

Emma standing on the TED red dot in front of a big sign that says TEDx Queen's University Belfast. She is looking out to the audience and delivering her talk.
Me standing on the red TED dot
Photo of me holding the hardback copy of my book!
An image from the movie 'Wicked'. Glinda says: Pink goes good with green.
A crossword clue which reads: Person who nitpicks your grammar, for example.
Chalkboard sign in a pub: "Food's not on today, But your welcome to bring some and pretend it's ours!" Someone has corrected "your" to "you're" and written "B-, nice try!"
A story shared in the Popbitch newsletter which reads as follows: Typo Gear: Hamming it up It's not just Richard Hammond who excels as a grammar nazi (he goes Ron Burgundy if he spots even an apostrophe out of place, over-pronouncing it on purpose, apparently). The entire Top Gear crew are more pedantic than you might think. A member of the production team who worked on Top Gear in its late aughts heyday says that hundreds of rush cuts of the show’s footage would be sent to Jeremy Clarkson to review himself. He would then frequently go absolutely mental about even the slightest of typos. Little wonder that the post-production crew were regularly reduced to tears.
Image shows graffiti on a wall. In green it is written: 'So hot rite now'. Yellow writing is used to change the non-standard spelling from 'rite' to 'right'.
Book cover with the title Linguistic Insecurities and Authorities
The image is of a man waking up a woman in bed. The text says: Babe, wake up. The ninth edition of the Académie française dictionary just dropped