Geoff Lindsey

For those of a similar name, see Jeff Lindsay (disambiguation).

Geoff Lindsey
Other names	Dr Geoff Lindsey
Education	University College London (BA) University of California, Los Angeles (PhD)
Occupations	Linguist writer director
YouTube information
Channel	Dr Geoff Lindsey
Years active	2009–present
Genres	Linguistics education
Subscribers	255 thousand
Total views	20.2 million
Creator Awards 100,000 subscribers
Last updated: 18 June 2024

Geoff Lindsey is a British linguist, writer and director. He has written episodes for television series including the BBC soap opera EastEnders and The Bill, and runs a YouTube channel focusing on linguistics.

Lindsey trained in directing at the Bournemouth Film School, where he wrote and directed the short film The Band Parts starring Graham Fellows. In 1999 he was selected for the Carlton Screenwriters course. This led to his writing the anthology tribute Inspector Morse: Rest In Peace, and to his first television episode commissions. As a lead writer on the soap opera Family Affairs, he wrote the UK's first ever interactive soap episodes.

Lindsey directed Michael Palin in the short How to Use Your Coconuts for the DVD of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. With BreakThru Films, he wrote and directed the short film The Clap starring Steve Furst which was a finalist in Turner Classic Movies Classic Shorts 2005. For BreakThru Films' Magic Piano , Lindsey wrote the screenplay, and selected and arranged the musical score performed by Lang Lang. He also directed Lang Lang and Heather Graham in the live action segments of the feature-length The Flying Machine.

Lindsey is also a pronunciation coach and gives workshops on contemporary English pronunciation, at University College London (UCL) and internationally. He was interviewed on intonation as the studio guest of Stephen Fry on the BBC radio series Fry's English Delight. He has argued that the phonetic transcription systems for Received Pronunciation that are used in many dictionaries are outdated, as the upper-class accent of the 20th century has died out. He has proposed a replacement transcription system for a more modern form of British English.

For this reason, Lindsey has created CUBE, an online pronouncing dictionary which is supposed to reflect current pronunciations in Southern British English. CUBE was co-edited by Péter Szigetvári, a Hungarian professor of English at ELTE.

Lindsey previously worked as a lecturer in phonetics at University College London. He has a BA in Linguistics from UCL and an MA and PhD from University of California Los Angeles.

Lindsey runs a YouTube channel focusing on linguistics. Throughout his channel's lifetime, he has gathered over 250 thousand subscribers and over 20 million views as of 18 June 2024.

Transcription system of British English vowels

• 
  Diphthongs
  Examples:
  ɪj as in /flɪjs/ fleece,
  ɛj as in /fɛjs/ face,
  ɑj as in /prɑjs/ price,
  əw as in /gəwt/ goat,
  oj as in /tʃojs/ choice,
  ʉw as in /gʉws/ goose,
  aw as in /mawθ/ mouth
• 
  Long monophthongs
  Examples:
  ɪː as in /nɪː/ near,
  ɛː as in /skwɛː/ square, ɑː as in /pɑːm/ palm,
  əː as in /nəːs/ nurse,
  oː as in /θoːt/ thought,
  ɵː as in /kjɵː/ cure
• 
  Short monophthongs
  Examples:
  a as in /trap/ trap,
  ɛ as in /drɛs/ dress,
  ɪ as in /kɪt/ kit,
  ʌ as in /strʌt/ strut,
  ɔ as in /lɔt/ lot,
  ɵ as in /fɵt/ foot,
  ə as in /kɔmə/ comma

Publications

• Lindsey, Geoff; Nevins, Andrew (2017). Sonic Signatures: Studies Dedicated to John Harris. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ISBN 978-90-272-0831-6.
• Lindsey, Geoff (2019). English After RP: Standard British Pronunciation Today. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-030-04356-8.
• Lindsey, Geoff (2023). SMART Speech: 5 Practice Techniques for Teachers and Learners of Pronunciation. English Speech Services. ISBN 978-1-7393374-0-7.

External links

• Official website
• Geoff Lindsey's channel on YouTube
• Geoff Lindsey at IMDb
• http://www.cubedictionary.org/ (Lindsey’s pronouncing dictionary)