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The Smell of Masculine Fullness and Rotten Eggs
19 February 2024
How do you describe a fragrance when you lack the words for it? Linguist Marten van der Meulen sees possibilities in dialects and non-European languages.
There Is More to the Cow’s Voice Than Just Moo
21 June 2023
Dairy cows are not merely suppliers of dairy products to supermarkets; they are social beings that communicate with each other and with humans. However, sociolinguistics has paid little attention to this kind of interaction. Leonie Cornips aims to shed light on this through her language research on
The Top 7 Language Stories of the Year
20 December 2022
Join us in bidding goodbye to 2022 with seven of the finest language stories we published this year that are worth re-reading or listening to again.
New Reference Work on Regional Languages in the Netherlands and Flanders
29 August 2022
In the book Wie zegt wat waar? (Who Says What Where?) the reader is presented with a more accurate picture of the regional languages in the Netherlands and Flanders than in many other reference works. Dialect areas are less strictly demarcated here and reflect the increased interplay between regiona
How Romanian Writer Mira Feticu Made Dutch Her Own
17 September 2021
It requires a great deal of courage and persistence to make a new language and culture your own. In her book Liefdesverklaring aan de Nederlandse taal (Declaration of Love to the Dutch Language) Mira Feticu describes this struggle – this process of falling over and getting back up again – with D
The Decolonisation of Language Starts With Awareness
6 July 2021
Language is a representation of reality, which we use unconsciously. It thus reflects the prevailing relations in society, even if these are unjust. That is why it is necessary to decolonise language, writes scriptwriter and opinion former Raf Njotea. But because language is so elusive, imposed rule
Mira Feticu Declares Her Love to the Dutch Language
24 June 2021
Learning Dutch was a struggle, but it gave her freedom, states the Romanian-Dutch author Mira Feticu in her latest book. The Liberian-born writer Vamba Sherif can relate to Feticu’s victorious journey.
Double Dutch and Beyond
4 January 2021
Last year, the Anglo-Netherlands Society of London, to mark its centenary, published North Sea Neighbours, a collection of wide-ranging essays on important aspects of Dutch-British interaction across the sea. In his contribution, Professor Reinier Salverda of University College London (UCL) zooms in
Is the E-Bike Superseding the M-Bike?
4 May 2020
While cycling and snarling, linguist Fieke van der Gucht might spur a change in language.
Pals, Stop Complaining About Student’s Language Skills!
8 April 2020
Linguist Fieke Van der Gucht reads and listens, and writes about what strikes her in our use of the Dutch language. This month: grouches and people who complain about the deterioration of students’ language skills. Couldn’t it be that grammar grouches are forgetting the fact that writing is a co
Who Gives a Fuck About an Oxford Comma? Me!
9 March 2020
Linguist Fieke Van der Gucht declares her love to a comma.
