Archive for May, 2010
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Posted by Kati Sule on May 12, 2010
You may be interested to hear that there’s an audio version of the 21st Century Flux, written and performed by rapper Dizraeli: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] And don’t forget: there are downloadable resources to go with it on this page. Hope you’ll find this useful!
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Posted by Sharon Creese on May 11, 2010
I was watching one of those ‘ahh-inducing’ animal rescue programmes the other day, and noticed a rather fun, and cute, word for the young of a particular species (I can’t tell you what it was, as it’s in the quiz below). Anyway, it set me thinking. We’re all familiar with terms like cub, pup, kit [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on May 10, 2010
It’s Russian English month, yay! I have almost no experience with Russian or any other Slavic language so I have spent some time collecting some interesting links and reading articles, blog posts etc that in one way or another address the topic of ‘Russian English’ or ‘Slavic languages and English’. The reason we thought May [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on May 07, 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 Longest word [...]
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Posted by Beth Penfold on May 06, 2010
Could it be that the Macmillan Dictionary Blog has become a hotbed of nihilist political views? Are we seeing political apathy in extremis? Nah. Just want to whinge on about one of my old bugbears, namely, the misuse of the words hanged and hung. One of the many embarrassing truths about our past is that [...]
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Posted by Michael Rundell on May 05, 2010
The UK is in the grip of election fever, and elections – like wars – always give rise to new words and phrases. Like the last US presidential election, this is the first major British one of the Web 2.0 era. This adds to the unpredictability of it all, and ensures that anything interesting spreads [...]
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Posted by Kieran McGovern on May 03, 2010
Here are the answers to the questions in my previous post: a musical 1: Westside Story, based on the play Romeo and Juliet musical 2: Kiss Me Kate, based on the play The Taming of the Shrew b Shakespeare in Love c bloody, e.g. Duncan 1.2.1: What bloody man is that? / Macbeth 2.1: This [...]
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