Archive for January, 2010
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Posted by Vikki Reilly on January 19, 2010
Move over Irish-English … It’s time for Scottish- English week! Here is a guest blog post from Vikki Reilly on what it’s like to speak (or should I say weep) Scots. _______ I cannae help the way I speak. Well, I suppose that’s not really true, I’ll admit to having a ‘telephone voice’ like everyone [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on January 18, 2010
Please find our Irish English page here: Irish English.
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Posted by Michael Rundell on January 18, 2010
Sinead – one of the commenters on Roisin Muldoon’s recent blog – speculated that the Irish-English verb ‘to give out’ (to talk disapprovingly or tell someone off) may be a direct translation of a similar verb in Irish (the Gaelic language of Ireland). This happens a lot when languages co-exist, and Irish-English borrows not only [...]
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Posted by Stan Carey on January 17, 2010
This guest post comes from Stan Carey, a freelance writer and editor living in the west of Ireland. He writes about the English language on his blog Sentence first. _________ When I looked down from the bridge Trout were flipping the sky Into smithereens, the stones Of the wall warmed me. (From ‘May‘, by Seamus [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on January 15, 2010
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 10 hot [...]
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Posted by Roisin Muldoon on January 13, 2010
Don’t forget! It’s Irish-English week! Here’s our second guest blog post, this time from Roisin Muldoon, on English in Northern Ireland. _____________ I’m from Northern Ireland. Or, Norn Iron as we like to call it at home. Although English is my native language, I was lucky enough to be able to learn Irish (Gaelige – [...]
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Posted by Dymphna Lonergan on January 11, 2010
It’s Irish English week! Here is our first guest blog post from Dymphna Lonergan, author of Sounds Irish: The History of the Irish Language in Australia. ________________ Recently at a family lunch here in Australia I mentioned I was going to put something on the long finger. There was silence for a moment and then [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on January 08, 2010
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 Difficult languages. [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on January 07, 2010
Right. We’re back, we’re on, we’re in for 2010! What a great way to end the year with an Edublog award; thanks so much to those who voted for us. As for 2010, we have some great things planned and can’t wait to share them with you. As well as more witty, entertaining, discussion-inducing fare [...]
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Posted by Michael Rundell on January 06, 2010
Language can be divisive. Some people are relaxed about the way it keeps on changing, but others see change as decline. For them, English is ‘going to the dogs’, standards are falling, and the language is being overwhelmed by ‘slang’ and (even worse) ‘horrible Americanisms’. None of this is new. Samuel Johnson harked back to [...]
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