Rewriting Sounds & Syllables <ce> and <se> endings units. Screw you, Anglo-Norman scholars.

Such beautiful food at Core today. 🙂

I’m really looking forward to getting my paws on this. Chris’ last book is probably the best all-round primer on teaching ready. I’m sure this will be equally good.

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My new book, Primary Reading Simplified, is released this Monday. Briefly, I'd like to explain why it exists, who I think will find it useful and where you can find it. >>

These look really cool! I like the layout.

Just arrived in North Wales for a day of spelling goodness. 🙂

Stunning 2,000 year-old Hellenistic mosaic glass bowl looking like a Starry Night! 💫 Tranlucent dark blue glass with opaque white spirals. From Canosa di Puglia. Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany 📷 by me #AncientBlueSky 🏺 #Archaeology

For the end of November, shortly before the eleventh month became the twelfth, I wrote a piece all about those two numbers. Why does English have the words 'eleven' and 'twelve'? How do they relate to 'one' and 'two'? And what does Lithuanian have to do with all this? dannybate.com/2024/11/30/o...

Oneteen, twoteen? The origins of ‘eleven’ and ‘twelve’

Reading time: 5 minutes November, at time of writing, is ticking out its final few hours, and with them, the eleventh month of 2024 is giving way to the twelfth. Aside from the awkward mismatch in …

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Thank you for these, @jasonwade.bsky.social !

I've decided BlueSky is a warts n all kinda place so in that spirit I'm sharing a link to today's LinkedIn post which is essentially a plea for work. www.linkedin.com/posts/aidan-... I thought I'd feel really awful sharing it but some really cool people have been super supportive so I feel ok.

Aidan Severs on LinkedIn: #opentowork

Hi everyone! Time for a bit of honesty... The diary for the rest of November and December is looking sparse, and I&#39;d love to work so I don&#39;t go crazy or…

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I'm the process of updating some old materials. If anyone is interested here's an infographic I made a long time ago now on 'flowers of rhetoric'. You can download the PDF here: jwed.co.uk/2020/02/13/f... #edusky

I'm the process of updating some old materials. If anyone is interested here's an infographic I made a long time ago now on 'flowers of rhetoric'. You can download the PDF here: jwed.co.uk/2020/02/13/f... #edusky

Frequency-dependent selection in the English spelling system across 1000 years of histor osf.io/preprints/ps... Fascinating paper by Carr & Rastle on how English spelling has been shaped over the past 1000 years or so by both positive and negative frequency-dependent selection.