Archive for August, 2010
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Posted by Sharon Creese on August 16, 2010
How do you feel about ‘verbing’? It’s something we touched on in our news round-up recently, and no, it’s not rude – it’s the increasingly well-recognized practice of creating a verb out of a noun, like ‘google’, ‘tweet’, ‘text’, or ‘friend’. And it causes a lot of controversy. Many of the words spawned this way [...]
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Posted by Haresh Pandya on August 13, 2010
Haresh Pandya is a freelance journalist and teaches English in a college in Gujarat in India. _________ Of all nations, India can boast of having the richest and most diverse literature. This is not a recent phenomenon. It has been so since time immemorial – long before the written word came into existence. The tribe [...]
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Posted by Joel Berg on August 12, 2010
We make a quick return to American English today, with a guest post by Joel Berg, Executive Director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger and author of the book, All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America?. __________ American society is willing to use the words “hungry” and “hunger” to denote a wide [...]
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Posted by Pujitha Krishnan on August 10, 2010
The first guest post in Indian English month comes from book lover and blogger Pujitha Krishnan. __________ Indian English is a smorgasbord of peculiarities and personalities, and I have lately come to realize that all those years when I was basking in pride at my impeccable grammar and not insignificant vocabulary, I should have spent [...]
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Posted by Michael Rundell on August 09, 2010
Adam Kilgarriff’s recent blog sparked a lot of comments – not only on our site but elsewhere too. This comes as no surprise: the use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is an issue that tends to generate controversy. In this sense, it reminds me of what some Brits now call ‘elf and safety’. [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on August 03, 2010
I confess, I don’t really know where to start with this one; it’s a big country, lots of different languages and a very rich, unique kind of English … so I have spent the last few days reading blogs by Indian bloggers who I have found on Twitter or on this India Blogs list and [...]
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Posted by Adam Kilgarriff on August 02, 2010
When I was thirteen, I went to a chess championship in Southend-on-Sea. It was grey and windswept, and I was a little lonely and homesick, and as far as I remember I lost all my games. I remember just one spark of colour in this otherwise cheerless scene: my partner in one game, delighted with [...]
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