last changed: 17 May 2010 

UK Linguistics Olympiad 2009

Schools

The following schools took part in the 2009 competition as guests of the All-Ireland Linguistics Olympiad:

• Manchester Grammar School (seven teams from Year 12 and one from Year 13)
• Downlands Community School, Hassocks, West Sussex (three teams from Year 10 and Year 11)

AILO tests

• the individual test
• the team test

ILO sponsor and UK team

• The Philological Society sponsored the UK team to attend the International Olympiad in Wraclaw with a subsidy of one thousand pounds for travel expenses.
• The winning UK team was the Year 13 team from Manchester Grammar School: Ben Miller, Ben Caller, Adam King, Alex Sheppard.
• ILO results. The UK team did extremely well considering their lack of experience of the ILO and the very short time they had to prepare:
  • the team came ‘about fifth’ out of 23 (an unofficial result since only the first three teams were officially announced: 1 USA , 2 Korea, 3 Russia/Moscow)
  • one individual, Ben Caller, won a Bronze Medal in the individual competion.
  • all the team greatly enjoyed meeting their peers from 20 other countries.
• We issued a press-release on 6 August 2009.