Category Archives: spelling

Seminar on Jane Austen

Posted on February 20, 2025 by Ingrid Tieken

2025 is an important year, 250 years after Jane Austen’s date of birth. Various activities will commemorate that year, and one of them is a seminar that will be held at the Complutense University of Madrid. One paper will be … Continue reading →

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Just out!

Posted on February 13, 2025 by Ingrid Tieken

Interested in graphological aspects of Late Modern English letters? My article on abbreviation stops and related matters has just come out. With thanks to the editors for their excellent job. Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostaded. 2025. Visual pragmatics and Late Modern … Continue reading →

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On Late Modern English spelling: an appendix to Marco Condorelli, Introducing Historical Orthography (2022)

Posted on June 7, 2024 by Ingrid Tieken

The book is a plea for paying more attention in linguistics curricula to historical orthography, and I couldn’t agree more. The book is well written, and in my view very accessible. Focusing on spelling systems worldwide, it also deals with … Continue reading →

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Alfred Wallis (1855-1942) and his letters

Posted on March 8, 2024 by Ingrid Tieken

Not exactly Late Modern English, but interesting all the same! I’m giving a talk on his language use in the Kettle’s Yard letter collection on 18 April 2024 in Leiden from 2 to 5 pm, as part of the LUCL … Continue reading →

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Cassandra’s last wishes

Posted on February 4, 2024 by Ingrid Tieken

Cassandra Elizabeth, Jane Austen’s sister (1773–1845), not only left a Will but also a private document in the form of a letter to her brother Charles, in which she specified who were to inherit her most prized personal possessions. The contents … Continue reading →

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Special issue on Third-Wave Historical Sociolinguistics

Posted on December 28, 2023 by Ingrid Tieken

If you’re looking for anything to read during the Christmas recess period, here is something you’ll find interesting: a special issue of the International Journal of English Studies (23/2) entirely devoted to studies within the fairly new and burgeoning field … Continue reading →

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Excitement or illiteracy?

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Ingrid Tieken

Here is Sopio Zhgenti’s second blogpost, once again on Virginia Woolf: The previous blog post I wrote was about Virginia Woolf and the nicknames she used with people close to her. This time, I would like to continue talking about … Continue reading →

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The spelling of a president’s daughter

Posted on September 2, 2013 by Ingrid Tieken

Inge Otto, research master student at the University of Leiden, wrote her BA thesis this summer on the letters of Abigail Adams, the daughter of one of the presidents of the United States. What follows is a summary of her … Continue reading →

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