Talk Dialect White Paper
Talk Dialect is a national initiative to capture, preserve, and revitalise the 39 historic county dialects of England as a living digital and onchain record. Built on existing community-driven collections, it will create an open, collaborative online wiki — anchored at talkdialect.co.uk — where users contribute words, phrases, pronunciations,...
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Hermes Humans – A Novel Novel by Everybody
Hermes Humans: A Novel Novel by Everybody is set to launch on December 21, 2026.
This novel novel snags together a tapestry of tales woven from the collective minds and hearts of humans who want their story to be linked to loved ones and logged on the Internet forever....
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The Universal Visual Language and The Emoji Alphabet
The Emoji Alphabet: A Simple and Sensible System for the Universal Visual Language 1 Imagine a world where letters and words are fun, meaningful and easy to learn based on all our senses, especially our visual ones. 2 And everyone else in the whole wide world automatically understands the...
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An Alphabetical Compilation of Lancashire Dialect, Phrases, Lancashire Slang and Lancashire Words
I've been working on this post for more than a year and would love to get the entries to 1000.
If you or your family know any good words, sayings or phrases or slang please send them to me: hello@nikkiwordsmith.com or Business WhatsApp 07905 456704, that would be gradely.
Apeth (a...
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I, Wikipedian, Wish Wikipedia A Very Happy 25th Birthday
From a humble impossible dream until today exactly 25 years later, Wikipedia has democratized information, powered AI, informed journalism, and embodied humanity’s best collaboration—proving that collective curiosity and trust can build something truly extraordinary for everyone. Indeed, the purpose of an encyclopedia is to collect knowledge disseminated around the...
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2026 The National Year of Reading
New Year’s Day is often nice and quiet, so what better day to get down to some delightful reading?...
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Lancashire Day Poem: Balls of Cotton
Balls of cotton.Sheep on drugs. Floating in the sky above.Black hands picked them in the fields.White hands wove them in the mills.Balls of cotton.Sheep on drugs. Floating in the sky above....
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The Emoji Font & The Emoji Alphabet Official Public Timestamp
Is it a font? Is it an alphabet?...
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Keyboard Warrior
A quick fire poem about the path to peace tapped out early one Friday morning. I hope you like it.
Bang at paper
not with gun
Bang at paper
fight for love
Stab at keyboard
not with knife
Stab at keyboard
force for life
wall is stronger than the spear
quill is lighter...
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