Author Archives: lesleyjeffries

This is going to be a very short blog to mark my retirement from The University of Huddersfield (on 6th October 2022) after 33 years of employment. It hasn’t been a happy end to my ‘career’ as the university decided to close down our courses and make my colleagues redundant in June, leaving me withContinue reading “Linguistics”

This blog will contain occasional short posts, which may be political, topical, self-promoting (rarely) or simply something I thought about on my morning run. All of them will be about language. Until now… and I’m using the website for my personal challenges during cancer treatment! I will also comment on the language I encounter inContinue reading “Preoccupations in linguistics and other issues”