cosmolinguist is soliciting survey takers!

So if you're a native English speaker who spent at least your childhood (ages 4 to 13) in the UK, you'd be helping us out if you go to http://tinyurl.com/DialectSurvey2019 and answer a few questions. Something I just noticed, though: the only gender options offered are male, female and prefer not to say, and you have to pick one. Sorry. There are Reasons for this, but it still sucks. I don't blame anyone who doesn't want to do the survey on that basis.

(England is better represented than other parts of the UK so far, and I know I have some friends who grew up elsewhere in the UK, so consider yourselves particularly looked-at-with-a-hopeful-expression.)

So if you fit that category, go take part!

Eva has been quite a busy bee

and sorted all our books on the first floor, which is a significant fraction of our total physical books! Alas, she sorted by author's first name, and both her mom and I agree we'll have to redo it. (Eva was really annoyed by this and insisted it shouldn't matter. Well, at least it's sorted in some fashion now.)

On the subject of books, if you happen to like middle grade fantasy I must say I've been pretty happy with the books published as "Rick Riordan Presents" thus far.

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