Strong Language
Sweary stuff about swearing from a group of linguists, lexicographers, and language lovers. https://stronglang.wordpress.com Skeets by @sesquiotic.bsky.social
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social
Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears. Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame. “I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
@stefanfatsis.bsky.social
Father: No. 14 Scrabble player in North America Author: Word Freak, A Few Seconds of Panic, Wild & Outside Ex: Slate's Hang Up and Listen, WSJ, NPR, AP, Daily Pennsylvanian, Pel Mel Coming in 2025: UNABRIDGED from Grove Atlantic
@heddwen.bsky.social
I write the monthly (ish) newsletter English in Progress. Slang, neologisms, fresh articles on language https://englishinprogress.substack.com/ English teacher at Bielefeld University (EAL & ELA) Dutch English World Englishes AI English Lexicography
@mashedradish.bsky.social
I get to the bottom of words on the top of our minds. Mashedradish.com is etymology at the intersection of news, life, and everyday language. Previously headed up content at Dictionary.com.
@caitlinmoriah.bsky.social
linguist, discourse/pragmatics bean & bug’s mom podcaster liberalcurrents.com/halftheanswer/ author & associate editor at liberalcurrents.com singer with youtube.com/@arbielle?si=qzzG4mZwgbZWqhRY she/they substantively unserious
@mikepope.com
Tech writing & editing (update: now retired), language & words, occasional cats. Friday words when the mood strikes me (and when it's Friday): https://mikepopewords.com/
@rebeccashapiro.bsky.social
Mieskeit; Historical Lexicography & the Emoluments Clause (CUP '25); lexicographer; linguist; Edgeworth; #18thc; #CUNY; #NJ; down the shore; serial commas
@terminologiaetc.it
Terminologa. Affascinata da lingua, lingue e linguaggi. https://www.terminologiaetc.it/
@kjcharleswriter.com
She/her. British European. Purveyor of opinions, rude words, and romance novels, historical and fantasy. "Erotically charged"--Good Housekeeping. http://kjcharleswriter.com
@eviljoemcveigh.bsky.social
I'm a linguist & sr lecturer at Metropolia Uni. I'm writing my PhD in marketing and linguistics at the University of Helsinki. I like #language & #linguistics, hockey, baseball and comic books - but maybe not in that order :) https://eviljoemcveigh.com
@effinbirds.com
Daily comic by Aaron Reynolds that keeps on winning awards despite being nothing more than birds and curse words. Books, calendars and merch at effinbirds.com
@scarequotes.com
Moviegoer, movie lover. PNW denizen. UX content worker. Word nerd. Descriptivist by inclination. Learning German. Handy on a trivia team. Hard cider, iced tea. he/him, cis Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/xrv
@karenno.bsky.social
Copy editor. Runner. Fan of romance novels and reality dating shows. Extremely online.
@erikas.online
👩🏻💻 Linguist, anthropologist, writrix 💖 Marriage + matchmaking expert 📍Chicago by way of Astana by way of Kyoto by way of Detroit 💬 English/日本語/Русский/יידיש 🆗 🏳️🌈 they/she • あの奴 • она • זי ✡️ 🤝 🇵🇸 Writing and more @ erikas.online
@drgrammar.bsky.social
I write about language and … language and law (free speech and regulation); gender (pronouns!); tech (how tech affects readers and writers); language reform; and language policing. All from a historical perspective.
@rebeccaroache.bsky.social
Philosophical rent-a-gob. Podcasting @AcademicImp.bsky.social www.academicimperfectionist.com
@2ndlevelbard.bsky.social
Editor/instructional designer by day, funny dice enthusiast after hours. Sometime DMs Guild author, forever DM. Horror fan. Gourmand. Salty descriptivist. GenX, bi, enby, polyam. He/him, more or less. Here for elfgames, horror, & occasional leftism.
@electricland.bsky.social
Freelance medical editor, alto, occasional traveller, trying to make things better. The pup is Bunty, an Airedale terrier (🎂2023-05-29), and I regret to inform you she has her own Instagram. 🇨🇦 She/her. Yay for alt text. https://linktr.ee/rmarwick
@umasslinguistics.bsky.social
The University Of Massachusetts Boston Applied Linguistics Department. Account managed by @koutropoulos.bsky.social
@armavirumque.bsky.social
Techie, skeptic, ultracrepidarian, sciolist, patzer, erstwhile twittersnipe. Blast-beruffled. Emotionally tatterdemalion. Esquerdopata.
@karenyin.bsky.social
Writer by day, in bed by night. I am #ConsciousStyleGuide. Buy my books already! KarenYin.com/books LLF & CAC Fellow | ACES Robinson Prize Winner | Represented by Laurie Abkemeier, DeFiore & Company 🌈 she/ta/they
@dalaigrama.bsky.social
Sociophonetician in the Sociolinguistics Lab at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Interested in language variation and change, phonetics, dialect (typology), ethnolects, life-span change, Hawaiʻi, creoles, and prehistoric fauna. Proud papa. he/him
@jessgrieser.bsky.social
Sociolinguist, novelist, photographer, quilter, saxophonist and Boglehead. Associate Professor of Linguistics at UMich.
@schrisomalis.bsky.social
Linguistic anthropologist, Wayne State University. Numbers, cognition, writing and literacy, mathematics. Left, 🇨🇦, he/him. https://glossographia.com/ https://phrontistery.info
@jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie
Art with machines; design at Publicis; enthusiastic cat herder. www.pilcrow.ie
@irishlittimes.bsky.social
Promoting Irish writers and writing - maintained by Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social
@waywordradio.org
Public radio's lively language show! On-air in US, free podcast worldwide. https://waywordradio.org words@waywordradio.org. Toll-free US/Canada 24/7 1-877-929-9673 or https://wa.me/16198004443 #linguistics #etymology #podcast #books #language
@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com
Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet.
@katestarbird.bsky.social
Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer. #RageAgainstTheBullshitMachine
@noupside.bsky.social
✍🏼Studies influence, propaganda, adversarial abuse @Georgetown. Writes @Lawfare, The Atlantic. 📖 Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality — on influencers, online crowds, &bespoke realities (invisiblerulers.com) 🦹🏻♀️ Twitter Files supervillain
@sheeraf.bsky.social
NYTimes reporter and co-author of NYT bestseller “An Ugly Truth” with Cecilia Kang. Tell me a story. (Ideally through a non-work device using Signal. Find me via my username sheera.11)
@trance.bsky.social
Professional Dominatrix and erotic hypnotic Mistress Making the world a little better, one orgasm at a time She/Her https://cash.app/$MistressEmma https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3LT3Y04L704R1 NiteFlirt.com/Trance
@jillysull.bsky.social
Copy editor, conscious language advocate, cat person. Probably not here very much.
@pwallinga.bsky.social
Bluesky's favorite opera composer [citation needed]. Not tonal, not atonal, but a secret third thing. Posts about music, D&D, and loads of other nonsense | she/her | midwesterner in 🌉
@johnemcintyre.bsky.social
Retired Baltimore Sun editor, flaneur. Author of “The Old Editor Says” and “Bad Advice.” Kentuckian transplanted to Baltimore.
@yrfatfriend.bsky.social
Cohost of Maintenance Phase. Author of two books. In a documentary called Your Fat Friend. She/her/hers. Photo by the wonderful Josh Coen.
@elisehoward.bsky.social
Now literary agent! Grew up editor and publisher. https://www.defliterary.com/agents/elise-howard Co-creator w/ Amy Gash of BELIEVE IN THE WORLD: WISDOM FOR GROWNUPS FROM CHILDREN'S BOOKS. Native plants, baked goods, and handknits are my love languages.
@elongreen.bsky.social
Edgar Award-winning author, LAST CALL (2021) and THE MAN NOBODY KILLED (out now) http://www.elongreen.com
@editormark.bsky.social
Life's focus: The free exchange of ideas. Editor, writer, ally. Advocate for plain language, journalism, free speech, diversity, inclusion, tolerance. Host, That Word Chat. President-elect, ACES: The Society for Editing.
@ebrenner.bsky.social
Author of "The Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors." 📘 2024 winner of the Robinson Prize. 🏆 Builder of editing teams for small and growing organizations. 💪 Advocate for conscious language. 💬
@freshlookediting.ca
Non-fiction copyeditor/proofreader. Holden Diversity Fellow. Good music, good books, or good TV? Sign me up! Always learning. Words matter. (she/her) Treaty 6 Territory, Edmonton, AB, Canada https://campsite.bio/freshlookedit
@jwgrieve.bsky.social
Professor of Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham, Studying Language Variation and Change