About

“I call it good breeding,”

said Bielokurov, with a sigh,

“not so much to not upset the sauce on the table, as not to notice it when some one else has done it.

– Anton Chekhov

Дом с мезонином

Sonya is an award winning wordsmith who has been studying global colonial languages for 18 years. A passionately inclusive linguist, they battle against linguicism and pseudolinguistics to try to make the world a more equitable place for all language users.

  • Institute for Irish Studies
  • Test of Russian as a Foreign Language Level IV
  • German Embassy Prize for German Language and Culture
  • QUB Centre for Research in Linguistics
  • Tiktok nanoinfluencer
  • Too tall

Sonya in action

Forever on the hunt for new and exciting hobbies, Sonya can be found on a bike or at a rock gym or upside down at a handbalancing class attempting to seem even more tall.

Here are some of their beliefs:

  • Dogs are the best people
  • All English is Good English
  • No such thing as a wrong pronunciation
  • Peanut butter is The Food
  • My ancestors were Irish, I’m American
  • Binaries are deeply boring
  • Small museums are the best to visit