Archive for October, 2009
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on October 30, 2009
This post contains a weekly selection of links related to language and words in the news. These can be items from the latest news, blog posts or interesting websites related to global English and language change. Please contact us if you would like to submit a link for us to include. Global English USA: Top [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on October 26, 2009
I’ve had an enlightening week reading Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. I’ve avoided his books – and most of the resulting movies – all my reading/watching life, as … well, I’m hellishly easy to scare (seriously, Ghostbusters scared me senseless). But his approach and his advice is straight-up and liberating rather [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on October 23, 2009
This post contains a weekly selection of links related to language and words in the news. These can be items from the latest news, blog posts or interesting websites related to global English and language change. Please contact us if you would like to submit a link for us to include. Global English Cel•e•brate: the [...]
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Posted by Stephen Bullon on October 22, 2009
There’s an old chestnut about the pronunciation of the word GHOTI. It’s pronounced, obviously enough, /fɪʃ/. The GH is /f/ as in cough; the O is /ɪ/ as in women; and the TI is /ʃ/ as in motion. Not true, of course (it’s a made up word and you can read about it on Wikipedia), [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on October 21, 2009
Off-grid is the new BuzzWord this week on Macmillan Dictionary. Off-grid is an adjective which describes the situation of not using public utilities such as electricity, gas, water and mains sewerage. Some of the words which are associated with an off-grid lifestyle are: sustainability, unplugged, recycled, hand-powered, solar, self-sufficient, green. If you’d like to find [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on October 16, 2009
This post contains a weekly selection of links related to language and words in the news. These can be items from the latest news, blog posts or interesting websites related to global English and language change. Please contact us if you would like to submit a link for us to include. Global English Are British [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on October 13, 2009
Microblogging is the new BuzzWord this week on Macmillan Dictionary. The term microblogging describes the activity of putting short updates such brief texts, photos etc on a personal blog by using a mobile phone or instant messaging software. The most popular and perhaps best known microblogging service is Twitter. There is debate about the usefulness [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on October 09, 2009
This post contains a weekly selection of links related to language and words in the news. These can be items from the latest news, blog posts or interesting websites related to global English and language change. Please contact us if you would like to submit a link for us to include. Global English The decline [...]
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Posted by Sharon Creese on October 05, 2009
Once upon a time, writing in code was the stuff of detective novels and spy movies. Messages would be encoded using transposition ciphers (rearranging the letters of a word), substitution ciphers (where letters are replaced with other letters or numbers), or even steganography (where a piece of text says one thing, but means something completely [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on October 02, 2009
This post contains a weekly selection of links related to language and words in the news. These can be items from the latest news, blog posts or interesting websites related to global English and language change. Please contact us if you would like to submit a link for us to include. Global English Why English [...]
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