“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

About Sonya Mathews:

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


