In her third installment of ‘What’s App in Italian Linguistics’, Rebecca Gatti explores how simple Italian words have changed in meaning when used while texting

In her second column on the epics, Hanna Simojoki shares a nuanced insight into the history and rediscovery of what is thought to be the world’s oldest literary masterpiece

In her second column, Rebecca Gatti explores specific discourse markers in Italian, demonstrating how they can be used within online communication to mean many different things.

In her first column of term, Rebecca Gatti introduces a new linguistics project she has helped to work on - a database of Italian words taken from WhatsApp, giving an insight into the way that language is used online

In her first instalment of term, Columnist Hanna Simojoki shares an insight into the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala - its history, impact on Finnish culture, and relevance today

In her first piece of term, Staff Writer Lizzy Riley explores the benefits that reading as a child can have on language development

In this article, Linguistics Editor Aoife O’Driscoll investigates the meanings behind place names - though often taken for granted, they can reveal a lot about the history and identity of a location.

Columnist Pippa Mentzel explores the brilliant and bizarre linguistic phenomena of idioms to uncover what they show us about our cultural heritage and how our imaginative human mind revels in describing the world around us. In the second instalment, Pippa talks us through the origins and usages of two bean-related idioms.

The free online word-guessing game Wordle has taken over the internet, a craze which started in by New Zealand players. This app that started as a romantic gift to support a partner has now become one of our most competitive daily activities. In this discussion, Linguistics Editor Stephanie Jat looks at the linguistic elements of word guessing, and explores the benefits of corpus linguistics in helping find an advantageous first guess. (All images of the game are screenshots from players of the web page.)

Columnist Pippa Mentzel explores the brilliant and bizarre linguistic phenomena of idioms to uncover what they show us about our cultural heritage and how our imaginative human mind revels in describing the world around us. In the first instalment, Pippa talks us through the origins of ‘turning a new leaf’ and discusses a new way to ask after others.

In this review, Brianna Mitchell discusses the pros and cons of using the free language app, Duolingo, and why it’s important to incorporate cultural interaction with language apps.

In this opinion piece, Dion Everett looks at the challenges that come with translation, and the tradition of being able to consume texts easily in English. Everett discusses his own experiences translating texts, and answers the question – can translation ever be true?

In this review, Staff Writer Kitty Liu shares her thoughts on Semicolon by Cecelia Watson and discusses this author’s views on linguistic prescriptivism.

In this article, Staff Writer Kitty Liu explores some differences in how Western and Eastern scholars reconstruct the phonology of 5th century BCE Chinese

Staff writer Kitty Liu reviews Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch