Archive for April, 2010
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Posted by Kati Sule on April 15, 2010
Just a reminder to you all that the Double-click feature of our wonderful dictionary is available to you all to integrate with your blog and/or website, and free of charge too! You can see the Double-click in action here on the blog. Isn’t it great? If you’d like to add it to yours too, watch [...]
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Posted by Jamie Zhang on April 14, 2010
Here is our first guest post for English for China month, written by Jamie Zhang … a small Chinese woman. Enjoy! _______ Like Bill Bryson in Notes from a Small Island, when I came to study in the UK for my MBA and DELTA, I was confused by everyday English. It was like nothing I’d [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on April 13, 2010
The IATEFL (International Association of Teacher’s of English as a Foreign Language) event has put me slightly behind on this month’s trumpeting. But here we go: It’s Chinese English month, yeeha! This is exciting for a number of reasons: we recently rolled out the Chinese version of the Macmillan Dictionary Online. You’ll see that all [...]
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Posted by Sharon Creese on April 12, 2010
Have you noticed how, in the past 10 years, a whole bunch of completely unrelated words have become totally interchangeable, all thanks to predictive texting? Predictive texting is now a feature of pretty much every mobile phone on the market, and love it or hate it, we’re all exposed to it in one way or [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on April 10, 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 PQ study [...]
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Posted by Michael Rundell on April 08, 2010
I took this photo outside my local copy shop last week. Right at the top of the sign is one of the products which the business supplies: calenders. Now these guys are in the printing business so they know about proofreading, spellchecking, and so on – yet they still couldn’t get the spelling right. But [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on April 07, 2010
You may recall that we started a haiku competition last month. Quite a few of you have proven that you can indeed haiku. You only need to take a look at this page. The winning haiku was submitted by ZZ and can be read on the dictionary home page. Congratulations to ZZ and thank you [...]
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Posted by Sharon Creese on April 05, 2010
The winner of the 2009 Bookseller / Diagram prize for the Oddest Title of the Year was announced at the end of last month, going to Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes by Dr Daina Taimina. You may remember I mentioned this competition a few weeks ago, though this wasn’t one of the titles that originally [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on April 02, 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. Language change and slang [...]
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