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5th October, 2020

Hampden Books announces:

Slips of the Tongue from the Linguistic Graveyard: One shit, two c*nts and a Brexit Breakfast! by Michael Cribb

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10th September, 2020

Slip of the Tongue

A slip of the tongue from Keir Starmer (KS) at Prime Minister’s Questions.

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4th July, 2020

A Cascade of Slips

A single speech error (slip of the tongue) often cascades into multiple errors within the space of a few words …

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12th June, 2020

Why do so many fall foul of the Hunt/cunt slip?

Many commentators and broadcasters have fallen foul of Jeremy Hunt’s name over the years. Some make light of the slip, …

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9th June, 2020

Three words and 0.7 seconds: Not much time for a Minister

A lot was made on Twitter of Helen Watley’s appearance on Sky TV this morning. The claim by some distractors …

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27th March, 2020

Slip of the Tongue

An interesting slip of the tongue here by Kay Burley, Sky news presenter, which can almost be called an internal …

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10th June, 2019

Gove’s Gestures

Michael Gove, Conservative MP, serves up some curious hand gestures while speaking including teacup gestures and steeple Vulcans. Here are …

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13th March, 2019

Slip of the Tongue: Brexit

The dreaded Brexit slip strikes again!

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18th November, 2018

Slips of the Tongue: Repair Procedures

Slips of the tongue (speech errors) nearly always include some repair whereby the speaker realises the mistake and then attempts …

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24th October, 2018

Slip of the Tongue: Borrowing from downstream

Speech errors (slips of the tongue) often ‘borrow’ from language in the mind that is downstream of the target language. …

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2nd October, 2018

Howzat! A hat trick of slips.

Slips of the tongue can be annoying for interviewers when they happen once. But when one error leads into another …

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19th September, 2018

Slip of the Tongue: ‘exotic spresm’

Vince Cable should perhaps leave sexual innuendos to others after fluffing his lines at the Liberal Democrats’ conference on Tuesday. …

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5th July, 2018

Slip of the Tongue

An interesting slip of the tongue by Theresa May at Prime Minister’s question time occurred on Wednesday and suggested that …

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19th May, 2018

Slips of the Tongue

Two slips of the tongue from the BBC.

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16th March, 2018

Slips of the tongue

Two slips of the tongues here, courtesy of BBC presenters.

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24th January, 2018

Slip of the tongue

Slips of the tongue can be useful for understanding the psycholinguistic processing of speech output. Here is an interesting slip …

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3rd October, 2017

Pausing as a marker of equivocation intentions

Pausing briefly while speaking is a natural part of delivery. We pause for several reason. The most obvious one is …

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25th September, 2017

The Unated Nations!

For a brief moment, the world thought that Donald Trump had renamed the United Nations when he called them the …

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4th September, 2017

Ticking and Clicking

Slips of the tongue are a normal part of speech. It is very difficult for anyone to speak at length …

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24th May, 2016

It’s language, stupid!

A scene in The Hobbit by J.R. Tolkien has three trolls bickering and quarrelling all night until the light of …

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11th November, 2015

What is a mind?

Language is the DNA of the mind. I have a mind. That I am pretty sure of. But how do …

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4th November, 2015

Animal Language: Separation of a kind or degree? (part 2)

Part 1 of this article is here. Language, Communication and Thought For the linguist, the opportunity to redefine the question …

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20th October, 2015

Animal Language: Separation of a kind or degree? (Part 1)

Language is one of the most precious elements we have. It is so precious that it has been the centrepiece …

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13th October, 2015

The Genes of Mother Nature (Origins of Language)

If this sentence represents a theory of language evolution in the human species, then the full stop at the end …

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5th October, 2015

How much does language weigh?    (A thought experiment)

How much does language weigh? Can we measure its volume. The lack of answers to these fundamental questions should give us pause for thought as to its status in the universe.

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