ABSTRACT
The corridors in the linguistics department where I work tend to become crowded with students at certain periods – sometimes you have to navigate past groups gathered around noticeboards, particularly during exams. Recently, during one such busy period, I overheard a group of young women discussing an exam timetable which had just been posted on one of the noticeboards. ‘I can’t believe we have an exam at nine o’clock in the morning,’ one student complained. ‘That’s so gay!’
