Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford
Simon Horobin is Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. He is the author of The English Language: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2018), How English Became English (OUP, 2016), and Does Spelling Matter? (OUP, 2013). His latest book Bagels, Bumf, and Buses: A Day in the Life of the English Language will be published in November 2019. He has appeared as an English language expert on radio and television programmes such as Radio 2's Jeremy Vine Show and Radio 4's Stephen Fry's English Delight.

His Dark Materials: how to decode the story's linguistic secrets
Nov 24, 2019 14:35 pm UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
The BBC dramatisation of Philip Pullmans His Dark Materials trilogy has brought to the screen a universe that the author describes as like ours, but different in many ways. One of the ways Pullman achieves this eerie blend...