Obviously ... the only way is Essex if you want to hear nouveau cockney. Reem

There's a good reason why Towie outshines its scripted reality rivals – the language. It's well educational
http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2013/aug/02/mind-your-language-nouveau-cockney

Don't get your Alans in a twist

Sometimes only cockney rhyming slang will do. But get it wrong and you can end up looking a berk
http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2013/feb/22/mind-your-language-cockney-rhyming-slang

What Britain's county dialects can tell us about the national character

Take a linguistic tour – a holus-bolus fidge-fadge, if you will – around some of Britain's most charming forgotten words

http://www.theguardian.com/education/mind-your-language/2014/apr/02/what-british-dialects-tell-us-about-national-character

If you can't use an apostrophe, you don't know your shit

Greengrocers – and big supermarkets – may struggle to tame the 'apostrofly', but it's not actually that hard
http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2013/aug/16/mind-your-language-apostrophe

Jafaican it? No we're not

Comedians might play the patois of multicultural Britain for laughs, but spoken English has been drawing on influences from other languages and dialects for centuries
http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2013/aug/30/mind-your-language-jafaican

Words are stupid, words are fun

As words fall in and out of fashion, new ones enter the language. But some, such as autonaut, chassimover and pupamotor, failed to reach the assembly line

http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2013/oct/07/mind-your-language-words 

Sexist language: it's every man for him or herself

The author of Winnie-the-Pooh thought 'he or she' should be replaced by 'heesh', but there's nothing wrong with singular 'they'
http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2013/oct/18/mind-your-language-sexism

Basically, don't underestimate your listeners

Let's trust each other with depth and detail, not try to reduce conversation to basics
http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2013/nov/15/mind-your-language-basically 

10 grammar books to read before you die of boredom

A seasonal selection of new (and not so new) books about language that are anything but dull
http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2013/dec/13/mind-your-language-books-of-the-year

Found in translation ... when misquoting someone is the best way to be fair and accurate

If a non-English speaker feels like a 'donkey out of water', it's right to change their words to help them get their point across clearly
http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/apr/16/mind-your-language-quote-unquote 

When insults become the norm, dialogue is debased

If you call someone a Nazi just because you disagree with them, you have already lost the argument
http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/apr/25/mind-your-language-insults

A good pun is its own reword

 From Battersea Flower Station to Blonde Dye Bleach, everyone wants to be punny. What's your favourite?
http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/may/30/mind-your-language-puns

Good grammar saves lives – and rescues friendships

Despite the uproar it caused, local councils are still banishing apostrophes from street signs. But a single apostrophe can save utter humiliation

http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/jun/27/good-grammar-saves-lives-and-rescues-friendships

The David Beckhamosaurus: he’s closer than you think (and he has feathers)

The often peculiar names we give newly discovered species reveal as much about the egos, eccentricities and obsessions of humans as they do about the creatures themselves

http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/jul/25/mind-your-language-scientific-names

Word criminal? The web will sentence you

Here are the current funniest ways the web is telling us to mind our language

http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/aug/29/mind-your-language-word-criminal-the-web-will-sentence-you

Let’s eat Grandma! How to use, and not use the comma

‘If you could edit your past, what would you change?’  ‘I’d get rid of all the commas’ – Peter Carey

http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/sep/04/mind-your-language-commas

Guardian masterclass: the essentials of grammar with David Marsh

A whole Saturday of grammar-related events at the Guardian building near King’s Cross with the emphasis on entertainment. It doesn’t matter whether you know your apostrophe from your ellipsis, you’re bound to learn something.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/live/2014/sep/06/guardian-masterclass-essentials-grammar-david-marsh-kings-place

The Guardian’s style guide editor on … putting the fears around texting into historical context David Marsh

Every minute, the world’s mobile phone users send more than 15 million text messages. There is no evidence that any of them have forgotten how to write.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/14/style-guide-editor-texting-fears-historical-context

Research Activity- Linguistics Research Blogspot

Investigate the following academic linguistic research blog and write notes about any interesting pieces of research you find.

http://linguistics-research-digest.blogspot.co.uk/p/about.html

Oi, you – yes, youse lot – I’m talking to you, y’all

Although some regional dialects retain the distinction, most English speakers have to make do with using ‘you’ to mean one person or many

http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2015/jun/05/oi-you-yes-youse-lot-im-talking-to-you-yall

Scots: do you know your teuchters from your sassenachs?

Irrespective of the political fallout from the independence referendum, the UK’s language patchwork is stronger having retained the rich tradition of Scots

http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/oct/03/scots-english-do-you-know-your-teuchters-from-your-sassenachs

Speaking it in the family

Familects – home dialects in which words are given private meanings – reveal that everyone has a creative and playful linguistic story

http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2013/jul/19/mind-your-language-family-slang

Mind your slanguage, and don't be an erk. YOLO

Slang should be celebrated, not condemned. It enriches our language – from bloomers to booty, from cool to ceebs, and from doing a Lohan to LOLZ

http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/mar/28/mind-your-language-slang

The Guardian’s style guide editor on … putting the fears around texting into historical context

Every minute, the world’s mobile phone users send more than 15 million text messages. There is no evidence that any of them have forgotten how to write.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/14/style-guide-editor-texting-fears-historical-context

Using ‘literally’ metaphorically is literally spreading like wildfire

Mark Twain, F Scott Fitzgerald and James Joyce all did it. (HW Fowler disapproved.) Should ‘literally’ be used to mean its opposite?

http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/oct/24/mind-your-language-literally

Txting is for people who can’t spell, write? Wrong

Children who use ‘textisms’ have greater phonological awareness, according to research that exposes some of the myths about language and social media.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/nov/07/mind-your-language-textisms

If you’ve got ‘another thing coming’, you’ve got another think coming

I don’t want to make a big thing about it, but I do think ‘think’ makes more sense when using this phrase.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/nov/18/mind-your-language-another-think

English spellings don’t match the sounds they are supposed to represent. It’s time to change

You can’t tell the spelling from the pronunciation, and you can’t tell the pronunciation from the spelling. No wonder people find English difficult.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/dec/11/mind-your-language-english-spelling

Waiting with bated breath to learn how idioms took flight

At the end of your tether because you are treated as a dogsbody? Falconry and the sea are two rich sources of English expressions

http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2015/sep/18/waiting-with-bated-breath-to-learn-how-idioms-took-flight

Man up, come off it, jel and aww ... the Facebook emojis we really need

If we must communicate via soundbites and emoticons, at least give us some ironic and sarcastic ones.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2015/oct/16/man-up-come-off-it-jel-and-aww-the-facebook-emojis-we-really-need

Power grab: reclaiming words can be such a bitch

From suffragette to queer, the prerogative force of words can change. But reclaiming them has had mixed success.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2015/oct/30/power-grab-reclaiming-words-can-be-such-a-bitch