John Wells’s phonetic blog

The village of Atherton in Greater Manchester (formerly, in Lancashire) has recently been in the news . It is quite near where I grew up, so...

The Eastern Daily Press , published daily in Norwich, is the largest-selling regional morning newspaper in the UK. Peter Trudgill, the UK’s ...

One of the joys of continuing to try to educate oneself throughout life, even as one grows old, is that you’re for ever extending your voca...

On BBC4 TV recently there was an interesting programme entitled Metamorphoses . It was about animals that change their shape and/or lifest...

Writing about apostrophes in place names led me to realize that I haven’t ever discussed in my blog the question of the spelling of placena...

It’s apostrophe-moral-panic time again. (For previous episodes, see for example my blog for 7 Dec 2011 . ) As you may know, I am someth...

English intonation is at the interface of phonetics and pragmatics. To describe the tunes you have to be able to analyse the changing pitch ...