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Emma Humphries (she/her)

@emhumps

Researcher working on prescriptivism in popular culture. Interested in language attitudes and language policy. And Cruising with Jane McDonald.

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Emma Humphries (she/her)@emhumps· Feb 9

A timely submission to YourWrong.co.uk "Have you noticed, Catherine, his frightful Yorkshire pronunciation?" (Brontë, Wuthering Heights) How "frightful" will the accents in the new film adaptation be? #WutheringHeights #JacobElordi #MargotRobbie

Emma Humphries (she/her)@emhumps· Jan 14

Is Sabrina Carpenter saving the English language? Find out in my TEDx talk! 🤯 m.youtube.com/watch?v=hq7J... @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social #TEDx #TEDxQUB

Emma Humphries (she/her)@emhumps· Dec 5

Coming soon 👀 @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

Emma in front of the Lanyon building at Queen's University Belfast with a big TEDx sign on the left. On the right, the following text has been superimposed: What can a Sabrina Carpenter song teach us about grammar? By exposing the myths behind 'good' language, we'll rethink assumptions about language and correctness.

Emma Humphries (she/her)@emhumps· Dec 4

A little something I wrote for @theconversation.com about Wicked and prescriptivism theconversation.com/wicked-for-g...

Emma Humphries (she/her)@emhumps· Nov 6

Next month I'll be giving a TEDx talk at Queen's on my two favourite topics: prescriptivism and Sabrina Carpenter!

Me standing on the red TED dot

Emma Humphries (she/her)@emhumps· May 12

It's here! Linguistic Insecurities and Authorities, published by @johnbenjamins.bsky.social, written by me!

Photo of me holding the hardback copy of my book!

Emma Humphries (she/her)@emhumps· Mar 26

YourWrong.co.uk

An image from the movie 'Wicked'. Glinda says: Pink goes good with green.

A second image from 'Wicked'. Elphaba responds: Goes well with green.

Emma Humphries (she/her)@emhumps· Mar 20

Six letters, beginning with P... YourWrong.co.uk

A crossword clue which reads: Person who nitpicks your grammar, for example.

Emma Humphries (she/her)@emhumps· Mar 4

YourWrong.co.uk

Chalkboard sign in a pub: "Food's not on today, But your welcome to bring some and pretend it's ours!" Someone has corrected "your" to "you're" and written "B-, nice try!"

Emma Humphries (she/her)@emhumps· Feb 21

popbitch serving some "Your Wrong"-level goss this morning. Top Gear meets prescriptivism. YourWrong.co.uk

A story shared in the Popbitch newsletter which reads as follows:
Typo Gear: Hamming it up

It's not just Richard Hammond who excels as a grammar nazi (he goes Ron Burgundy if he spots even an apostrophe out of place, over-pronouncing it on purpose, apparently). The entire Top Gear crew are more pedantic than you might think.

A member of the production team who worked on Top Gear in its late aughts heyday says that hundreds of rush cuts of the show’s footage would be sent to Jeremy Clarkson to review himself.

He would then frequently go absolutely mental about even the slightest of typos.

Little wonder that the post-production crew were regularly reduced to tears.

Emma Humphries (she/her)@emhumps· Feb 11

Yourwrong.co.uk

Image shows graffiti on a wall. In green it is written: 'So hot rite now'. Yellow writing is used to change the non-standard spelling from 'rite' to 'right'.

Emma Humphries (she/her)@emhumps· Jan 10

Coming to university libraries near you (hopefully) in Spring this year (again, hopefully!). benjamins.com/catalog/impa...

Book cover with the title Linguistic Insecurities and Authorities

Emma Humphries (she/her)@emhumps· Nov 15

I joined! Expect Académie française themed content

The image is of a man waking up a woman in bed. The text says: Babe, wake up. The ninth edition of the Académie française dictionary just dropped