{"id":5444,"date":"2016-01-22T13:34:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T13:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=5444"},"modified":"2016-01-22T13:34:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T13:34:14","slug":"david-hornsby-on-bbc-radio-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/01\/22\/david-hornsby-on-bbc-radio-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"David Hornsby on BBC Radio Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/staff\/hornsby.html\">Dr David Hornsby<\/a>, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/index.html\">Department of English Language &amp; Linguistics<\/a>, was interviewed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radiokent\">BBC Radio Kent<\/a> earlier in the week, on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p009v85c\">Julia George<\/a> slot, presented by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrstevenallen.co.uk\/p\/comedian-presenter-and-writer-steve-n.html\">Steve N Allen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The interview was broadcast on Monday 18 January, when David was posed the question \u2018Are spellcheckers ruining society?\u2019 The interview was in response to an online posting of a\u00a0schoolteacher\u2019s spelling &#8211; test complete with spelling errors &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/fashion\/news\/mother-shares-childs-homework-complete-with-spelling-mistakes-a6818856.html\">resulted in a Twitter storm<\/a>. \u2018I do have some sympathy for that teacher,\u2019 claims David, who argues there are many counterintuitive spellings within the English language. \u2018I think English really could do with a spelling reform, but we\u2019re not going to get it,\u2019 he states.<\/p>\n<p>The programme can be heard on the BBC\u2019s iPlayer, with David\u2019s interview occurring at 23 minutes, here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p03dwzs8%23play\">www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p03dwzs8#play<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr David Hornsby, from the Department of English Language &amp; Linguistics, was interviewed on BBC Radio Kent earlier in the week, on the Julia George &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/01\/22\/david-hornsby-on-bbc-radio-kent\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":5445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5444"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5451,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions\/5451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}