Kate Watson @loreandordure.com Smallholder, writer, erstwhile vetn'ry, PhD student, lexicographer, ADHD+ & alleged Pratchett witch.
Letterpress, bookbinding, (alt-process) photography.
Long Covid victim. She/they.
🖋️ https://loreandordure.com/
🖼️ https://ko-fi.com/loreandordure/shop/
Noah Webster's Dictionary Online - 1806, 1828 @nwdictionary.bsky.social Vocabulary and observations from the team working to create Webster’s Dictionary Online. RT does not imply endorsement.
Dictionary Society of North America @dictionarysoc.bsky.social https://dictionarysociety.com/
Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social I am America’s Best Christian™. But you knew that. You can find exclusive content here: https://www.patreon.com/c/MrsBettyBowers
TITHE: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=Q6REDKBBVUJLU
Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com The official account for Oxford Academic, featuring Oxford University Press's academic news and insights.
MozartCircle @mozartcircle.bsky.social MozartCircle: news on books, papers, recordings about Mozart Haydn Ditters Vanhal & the others. Weekly Update on Weekend! http://mozartcircle.porticodoro.com
James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Jeremy Butterfield @jeremybutterfield.bsky.social Non-fiction writer about language(s). Editor of Fowler's Modern English Usage. Dictionary buff. Polyglot.
Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social Editor at Merriam-Webster // Poems and essays in Orion, Antiphony, Prairie Schooner, Poetry, swamp pink, Blue Mountain Review, Bad Lilies, Kenyon Review, African American Review, Bennington Review, Columba, more // he/him // Vermont // MichaelMetivier.com
Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social Blogger at Liberal England. Expect Dickens, politics, Steve Winwood, canals, British films, Richard Jefferies, Shropshire, Englishness, chess, social history, Malcolm Saville, philosophy, Leicestershire and Rutland, comedy, railways... That sort of thing.
Julianna Bratt @bjulianna.bsky.social Paleographer & family historian interested in early modern England, book binding & book history, and nice people fleeing twitter. MA student in archives & records management, distance learning through Aberystwyth University. 
Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social supporting researchers counting words in various ways with computers at university of arizona libraries; increasingly displaced new englander
Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social I write poems.
Shows: https://brianbilston.com/events/
Books: https://brianbilston.com/books/
English Wiktionary @enwiktionary.bsky.social The official account for en.wiktionary.org, the English Wiktionary. We’re a collaborative project to produce a free-content multilingual dictionary. We aim to describe all words of all languages using definitions and descriptions in English.
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.
Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social Bodley's Librarian, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk & Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums @ox.ac.uk OBE. FSA. FRHistS, FRSE. President, DPC. Fellow, @Ballioloxford.Bsky.social. Member, @AmPhilsociety.Bsky.social Hon. Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social
Jana Luther @janaluther.bsky.social woordeboekmaker | lexicographer
https://www.wat.co.za/
https://afrikaans-vandag.co.za/
Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social Editor of Forgotten Ground Regained (https://alliteration.net), a website devoted to modern English alliterative verse. If you like Beowulf, or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or Tolkien's Fall of Arthur or Sigurd and Gudrun, you're in for a treat.
Viraj Alimchandani @virajalim.bsky.social 📍JIC, Norwich. PhD, Université de Montréal. Previously Organ Scholar and MPhys at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Microscopy and photography nerd. Enjoy all things nano and baroque.
See my photos at https://www.instagram.com/viraj.alimages
(he/him)
Ian Gadd @iangadd.bsky.social Bibliographer; book historian. Opinions are my own.
(Header image is cartoon by Stephen Collins: http://www.stephencollinsillustration.com/)
Volker Harm @volkerharm.bsky.social Lexikograph und Linguist. Wörterbucharbeit @wortgeschichte.bsky.social (ZDL/ @nawgoe.bsky.social). Forschung zu #HistorischeSemantik. #BrüderGrimm. Lebenslang #grünweiß. Hier privat.
https://wgd.adw-goe.de
Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social Academic librarian, velocireader, cat parent, increasingly pagan.
Philip Seargeant @philipseargeant.bsky.social Language / Politics / Dystopian narratives
Professor of Language & Communication, Open University
Recent books:
The Future of Language
Political Activism in the Linguistic Landscape
The Art of Political Storytelling
Ravilious @ravilious1942.bsky.social A tribute to the British artist Eric Ravilious (1903-1942).
Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social Connecting you to art 🖼 Art UK is an art education charity and digital space that connects everyone with the UK's public art collection.
Take part in the #OnlineArtExchange every Thursday!
https://artuk.org/
https://linktr.ee/artukdotorg
Time Team @timeteam.bsky.social The official Time Team! The future of the past!
https://linkin.bio/timeteamofficial
#TimeTeam #Archaeology
Jesus College Cambridge @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social Official account of Jesus College, University of Cambridge. We are a friendly and modern academic community founded in 1496. Tag us with #JesusCollegeCambridge
Megan @meganfoodhistorian.bsky.social Food, Culinary, and Social Historian. Multidisciplinary Approach. Experimental and Historical Archaeology, Archaeobotany, Cultural Heritage. www.myhistoricaltable.com
Sam Kaislaniemi @samklai.bsky.social Locker no. 50 at the British Library.
Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social Reading, writing, thinking about the long 18th Century at the Faculty of English @cam.ac.uk. Irish woman baffled by the fens and the English middle classes. Emotional support/ emotional manipulation provided by a terrier.
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Traci Nagle @traciatlarge.bsky.social Research Development @ Stanford. Posting & re-posting about Science, Language, Writing, Food, & things Clever & Funny
Medazzanick @medazzanick.bsky.social Plant-based humanist, environmentalist, ex-lexicographer. Love Bowie, suede, NIИ, Duran Duran, LFC, Kurt Vonnegut, and Oxford commas. So it goes.
Three Choirs Festival @threechoirs.bsky.social The leading choral music festival since 1715.
🌐 www.3choirs.org
Marcel R. Bülles @dertolkienist.de Jenaer, Exil-Kölner, Tolkienist von Herzen. Threema: 7HKZ2WBW. he/him
Mich bei meinen Abenteuern unterstützen? Hier crowdfunden:
https://steady.page/thetolkienist/
Stephen Jones social @stephenjones.eu This is my non-Meta social feed. If you know me, you know me. Groningen/Oxford/wherever. 
Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social he/him • Doctor of Physics • Worldbuilder & Conlanger • Fan of Fantasy • Whovian • Amateur Enthusiast of Linguistics, Archaeology, Classics, and many other things
📍 Britain • 📖 Whitewalls • 📺 Trotters' Flat
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/
Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social Occasional editor and writer. Purveyor of half-baked opinions. Intermittently able to make my nieces laugh. (SnoozeInBrief on Twitter)
My blog on usage, editing and suchlike: https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com
Jeremy @uruloke.tolkienguide.com Mostly Tolkien most of the time
https://www.TolkienGuide.com
Guinevere of Mason @guinevereofmason.bsky.social NE dialect & place names.Coal.Turnips.Kyo's. Jumps down historical & geographical rabbit holes - some very niche indeed. 😉
Very dry sense of humour. From NE, lives SE.
Art of the northern, grim & industrial type usually.
UCL Survey of English Usage @uclenglishusage.bsky.social The Survey of English Usage carries out research in English Linguistics. Posts by @englishgrammar.bsky.social and @bethmalory.bsky.social
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/
Also follow us on @engliciousucl.bsky.social
Bas Aarts @englishgrammar.bsky.social Professor of English Linguistics, UCL
Here, I post on (English) language topics.
On Substack, I post on English Grammar: https://basaarts.substack.com/
#grammar #syntax #parsing
Stefan Fatsis @stefanfatsis.bsky.social Author: Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
Also: Word Freak, A Few Seconds of Panic, Wild & Outside
Ex: Hang Up and Listen, WSJ, NPR, AP, Daily Pennsylvanian, Pel Mel
Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social Geoffrey Chaucer (Le Vostre GC): Servaunt of the Kynge. Blogger. Wryter of verse. Wearer of litel woolen hatte. Deputy Forestere of North Petherton. He/hym/hys.
EngLangBlog @englangblog.bsky.social English Language & Linguistics for A-Level students and teachers.
One of the Lexis podcast team https://tinyurl.com/yckh3vy5
EngLangBlog: https://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/
English & Media Centre: https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/
He/him
Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social Minimus sum, mus sum. (I am Minimus, I am a mouse.) I live at Vindolanda with my Roman family, and in Suffolk with Dr Helen Forte. We like to make Latin fun!
Simon Beattie @simon-beattie.bsky.social Antiquarian bookseller, literary translator, choral composer. New album here: https://www.orchidclassics.com/releases/orc100398-the-world-to-me/
Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache @dwds.bsky.social Teil des Zentrums für digitale Lexikographie der deutschen Sprache (ZDL), beheimatet an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW)
https://www.dwds.de
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
Anglo-Norman Dictionary @a-ndictionary.bsky.social The AND is an open-access digital platform at Aberystwyth University about Anglo-Norman, the type of French used in the British Isles throughout the medieval period.- visit https://anglo-norman.net.
Dr Evelyn Koch @evelynkoch.bsky.social Early modern/19th-cent. English literature, science and literature, landscape in literature, fantasy, horror and weird fiction.
Paul Carbuncle @paulcarbuncle.bsky.social Folk-punk, onomastics, etymology, historical linguistics, real ale, blackbird song, and fairness. Editor of the EPNS Survey of Kent and co-host of Carrington Triangle Folk Club. Not an adult, according to BlueSky.
John Garth @johngarthwriter.bsky.social Writer, speaker, award-winner. Books in 18 languages on Tolkien’s life and work. Contact me via http://linktr.ee/johngarth. Support my work via Steady: http://bit.ly/3N191bi
Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu President of the @ec.europa.eu
Mother of seven. Brussels-born. European by heart. 🇪🇺
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social 🖼 🏺 World famous collections, from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art
🕙 Open every day 10am–5pm 🏛 linktr.ee/ashmoleanmuseum
Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com Indie #Tolkien scholar | Founder GermanTolkSoc #TolkienFolk | Travelling Tolkienist | Crowdfund my work via Steady https://steady.page/thetolkienist 🧙♂️🧝✨ he/him
Full Fact @fullfact.org Full Fact is the UK's independent fact checking charity. We put reliable evidence at the heart of public debate so you can make sense of what matters.
www.fullfact.org
Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social Writer, editor and consulting historian - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Doctor Who Magazine - and now former Alzheimer's carer. Ex-History of Parliament, also liable to write about North-East England and Oxford as well as television.
Because Language (becauselangpod) @becauselanguage.com A show about linguistics, the science of language. Your hosts (in order of coolness): Hedvig Skirgård, Daniel Midgley, and Ben Ainslie (tie for 2nd). patreon.com/becauselangpod
Neil Serven @neilserven.bsky.social Fiction & essays, novel in progress. Co-owner @federalstbooks.bsky.social . Candlepin bowler. Language stuff. A lot of crank air. Used to write the dictionary.
Western Massachusetts. 
Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social Collections and Archives Manager @ria.ie 📖
Medievalist 📜
I like big books and cannot lie! (she/her) 📕
Richard Bruce Parkinson @richardbparkinson.bsky.social Mis-placed northerner, reader of Ancient Egyptian poetry @queenscollegeox.bsky.social (Opinions my own)
Amanda Laugesen @alaugesen.bsky.social Historian, lexicographer, and chief editor of the Australian National Dictionary. Latest book 'Australia in 100 Words' out now with NewSouth Publishing.
The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com Independent English-language journalism in Ukraine
Become a member: kyivindependent.com/membership
Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
Deborah Meaden @deborahmeaden.bsky.social Investor, TV Dragon, Planet Hugger and admirer of many things.
Kate Wiles @katemond.bsky.social Medievalist, linguist, manuscript botherer ❧ Co-Editor of History Today ☞ LOST VOICES (Penguin/Stanford, forthcoming, one day) ❧ Posting in a personal capacity ❡
@smouritsen.bsky.social @smouritsen.bsky.social Attorney. Interested in law and language. Opinions are my own and not those of my firm or any place where I teach.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1345493
John Kelly @mashedradish.bsky.social Middle-school English teacher. Former dictionary editor and spokesperson. I write about etymology at mashedradish.com.
tyler @tylernt.bsky.social just talking to the void here
b.a. linguistics • c.i.s. master
♡ music & diet coke • ⚣ he/they
slowly figuring out life, one mistake at a time
Adam B @adambcqx.bsky.social Editor, Early Modernist - formerly MA and half a PhD at the Shakespeare Institute, now with Reading Early Plays 
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.
Owen Massey @oweninoxford.bsky.social /'əʊɪn 'mæsiː/
librarian・pedestrian・own views・they/them・Net Zero・Vision Zero・pro-trans・pro-trains・not my king・no gods・no masters・no borders・no statues・no heroes・❄️
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Jean Sibelius @jeansibelius.bsky.social The Life, Music and Times of Jean Sibelius (1865-1957).
Australian National Dictionary Centre @ozworders.bsky.social The Australian National Dictionary Centre, ANU. For the dinkum oil on Australian English, historical lexicography, Australian Oxford Dictionaries. CRICOS: 00120
Hugo van Kemenade @hugovk.dev Python 3.14 & 3.15 release manager, core developer, Sovereign Tech Fellow, PSF Fellow, open-source maintainer, PEP editor, NaNoGenMo organiser, winter bicycler
Bonnie Taylor-Blake @btaylorblake.bsky.social Former neuroscience researcher. Sometimes word sleuth. Modern-folklore enthusiast. No clue how that happened. #BlackLivesMatter #TarHeel btaylorblake.com
Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social We are European – we will never give up.
★ Regain our rights
★ Resist Brexit's effects
★ Rejoin the EU!
Polls show over 60% of British people back Rejoin
Marc Alexander @mga.is Professor of English Linguistics (University of Glasgow), Director of the Historical Thesaurus of English, made the Hansard Corpus 1803–, likes cake. He/him.- S Susan Wilkin @susanwilkin.bsky.social Oxford-based linguist/early modernist into (horti/cultural history of late Stuart England, works on fruit/vegetable cultivation). Reviving Dutch language skills to extend research across North Sea.
Stephen Gadd @docuracy.co.uk Assistant Research Professor @camunicampop.bsky.social
Technical Director, World Historical Gazetteer @whgazetteer.org
Research Associate & GIS Consultant @ihr.bsky.social & @layersoflondon.bsky.social
Wendalyn Nichols @wendalynnichols.bsky.social The Dictionary Lady
American Dialect Society @americandialect.org The American Dialect Society is dedicated to the study of language in North America. Linguists, lexicographers, educators, students, enthusiasts, and more. https://americandialect.org/
Mark Dunn @mdunn1.bsky.social Tech support for friends and family. Recovering lexicographer. Crossword wrangler.
Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist.
📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron
📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp @janevsw.bsky.social Retired rare books librarian, formerly Institute of Naval Medicine civvy, thwarted medievalist, enthusiast of history, cooking, words and singing, writer, occasional poet, permanently on wheels; married to retired PO (Comms) RNR, signal engineer, bass.
James K. Tauber @jtauber.com Using computers to better understand languages, texts, and music.
Tolkien, Web, Python, AI/ML, DH, Corpus Linguistics, Narratology, Philology, Ancient Greek, IE, Music Theory, Retro Computing, Physics
PhD candidate @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social
Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social Asst Prof (Old English & Old Norse). Book TRANSLATING HELL (2026). Phil-lol-ogist, word-lover, pun-makar, collector of dictionaries, glamorer of grammar.
Johnson's Dictionary Online @sjdictionary.bsky.social Site features, announcements, vocabulary, observations-- from the team of the NEH-funded Johnson's Dictionary Online. RT does not imply endorsement. Also on 🧵. johnsonsdictionaryonline.com 
Dennis Baron @drgrammar.bsky.social I write about language and … language and law (free speech and regulation); gender (pronouns!); tech (how tech affects readers and writers); language reform; and language policing. All from a historical perspective.
Erin McKean @emckean.bsky.social Wording at Wordnik until the words stop. 
Beth Young @bethyoung.bsky.social Inveterate reader and book-recommender, PI of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Online project, mom of three, opinions my own, also on 🧵
Aliki Pantos @mootthing.bsky.social Engaged in harmless drudgery of various sorts. 
Heather Darwall-Smith @sleeppsychotherapy.bsky.social Sleep psychotherapist, author, speaker with ADHD and springer spaniel owner