Bit of a Guardian day, today …

1. Guardian 1: ‘English has always evolved by mistake’ says lexicographical superstar Susie Dent https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/sep/23/susie-dent-english-has-always-evolved-by-mistake

2. The current One Stop English free offer includes an attractive set of materials and accompanying audio for young learners at three different levels, Round the World https://www.onestopenglish.com/young-learner-topics/young-learner-topics-round-the-world/557630.article PDFs and (very small!) audiofile below as well.

3. Guardian 2: There’s more to ChatGPT than a big memory, it seems https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/23/chatbots-ai-gpt-4-university-students-creativity

4. I met Charlie Gardner, the organiser of Walking in Water in a riverside pub on Sunday. Such a meeting will very likely not be possible in fifteen years’ time … https://walkinginwater.com/

More famously water-threatened is Venice, which is additionally at risk of being swamped by tourists https://theconversation.com/an-entry-fee-may-not-be-enough-to-save-venice-from-20-million-tourists-213703

5. Guardian 3: and, finally, Naomi Wood won this year’s BBC national short story award with Comorbidities https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/26/bestselling-author-naomi-wood-wins-2023-bbc-national-short-story-award and Atlas Weyland Eden won the corresponding Young Writer’s Award. You can listen to Atlas’s The Wordsmith (and all five shortlisted stories) here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2cslf9QxZKznVCqplBS0SY0/winner-of-the-2023-bbc-young-writers-award-announced