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

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Slips of the Tongue from the Linguistic Graveyard: One shit, two c*nts and a Brexit Breakfast! by Michael Cribb
A slip of the tongue from Keir Starmer (KS) at Prime Minister’s Questions.
A single speech error (slip of the tongue) often cascades into multiple errors within the space of a few words …
Many commentators and broadcasters have fallen foul of Jeremy Hunt’s name over the years. Some make light of the slip, …
A lot was made on Twitter of Helen Watley’s appearance on Sky TV this morning. The claim by some distractors …
An interesting slip of the tongue here by Kay Burley, Sky news presenter, which can almost be called an internal …
Michael Gove, Conservative MP, serves up some curious hand gestures while speaking including teacup gestures and steeple Vulcans. Here are …
The dreaded Brexit slip strikes again!
Slips of the tongue (speech errors) nearly always include some repair whereby the speaker realises the mistake and then attempts …
Speech errors (slips of the tongue) often ‘borrow’ from language in the mind that is downstream of the target language. …
Slips of the tongue can be annoying for interviewers when they happen once. But when one error leads into another …
Vince Cable should perhaps leave sexual innuendos to others after fluffing his lines at the Liberal Democrats’ conference on Tuesday. …
An interesting slip of the tongue by Theresa May at Prime Minister’s question time occurred on Wednesday and suggested that …
Two slips of the tongue from the BBC.
Two slips of the tongues here, courtesy of BBC presenters.
Slips of the tongue can be useful for understanding the psycholinguistic processing of speech output. Here is an interesting slip …
Pausing briefly while speaking is a natural part of delivery. We pause for several reason. The most obvious one is …
For a brief moment, the world thought that Donald Trump had renamed the United Nations when he called them the …
Slips of the tongue are a normal part of speech. It is very difficult for anyone to speak at length …
A scene in The Hobbit by J.R. Tolkien has three trolls bickering and quarrelling all night until the light of …
Language is the DNA of the mind. I have a mind. That I am pretty sure of. But how do …
Part 1 of this article is here. Language, Communication and Thought For the linguist, the opportunity to redefine the question …
Language is one of the most precious elements we have. It is so precious that it has been the centrepiece …
If this sentence represents a theory of language evolution in the human species, then the full stop at the end …
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.