photo courtesy of Peter Sokolowski
Sometimes, in my capacity as Associate Editor for Merriam-Webster, I give talks on various aspects of the English language (specializing in its history and its usage). Often, these talks have very silly PowerPoint slides! Here’s a handy list of all my upcoming talks, most of which will feature silly PowerPoint slides:
February 2013
- area high schools; Chicago, IL
English and How It Got That Way: A Short History
- 39th Annual ITBE Convention; Naperville, IL
English Past, Present, Future: Tense?
March 2013
- TESOL 2013; Dallas, TX
The Formal/Informal Divide: Tools for Teaching Tone and Register
May 2013
- 19th Biennial Meeting of the Dictionary Society of North America, Athens, GA
paper title TBA, co-presenting with Merriam-Webster’s Emily Brewster
If you’re interested in having me speak, send me a note:
I already know the answer to this, but do you take requests to just sit and talk to someone over coffee? I majored in linguistics in college and you’re basically doing my dream job.
Love the blog.
If you’re attending one of these conferences, sure! Otherwise, they don’t like me wandering away from my veal pen.
I wish! I will definitely keep track though (in a much less stalkerish way than that sounds) and see if anything ever comes up near me. If it does, I’m there!
Bridget, we Stamperphiles should just pool our money to start a conference dedicated to a love of English by amateur lexicophiles. We could see the dorky PowerPoint slides AND have coffee with Kory…