Archive for January, 2012
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Posted by Kati Sule on January 20, 2012
This post contains a 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, language change, education in general, and language learning and teaching in particular. Feel free to contact us if you would like to submit [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on January 19, 2012
digitalist (noun) a person who understands digital media and is competent in using it … we do need to find people who love the art of writing but understand how it becomes meta data, and we need to re-train existing staff to be dedicated digitalists as they have been passionate publishers. (Submitted from the United [...]
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Posted by Michael Rundell on January 18, 2012
The Macmillan Dictionary got a mention in The Guardian yesterday, when Jane Martinson pondered the use of the word simper. A fellow journalist (male) had tweeted about a lawyer (female) ‘simpering’ at a witness (male) in the ongoing Leveson Inquiry. (The inquiry was set up in the wake of revelations that News International journalists had [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on January 18, 2012
Nominations for the blogs and websites you love closed on January 15th. Now it’s time for voting. There are excellent sites to choose from. This is how the competition looks so far: World Wide Words winning with 2476 votes so far. English club 1st runner up with 998 votes ESL pod 2nd runner up with [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on January 18, 2012
In this weekly microblog, we bring to English language learners more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary. These tips are based on areas of English (e.g. spelling, grammar, collocation, synonyms, etc) which learners often find difficult. This week’s language tip helps with the verb marry. Don’t use the preposition with after get married or be [...]
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Posted by Orin Hargraves on January 17, 2012
The run-up to a general election in the United States provides an opportunity for observers of English to see it stretched beyond ordinary limits. The winnowing process that will reduce the various Republican contenders in the race to one has begun and as we plod steadily toward the November election, the rhetoric heats up and [...]
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Posted by Stephen Bullon on January 16, 2012
The weekly roundup on Friday carries a link to a story about the renaming of a well-known chain of British bookstores. It’s Farewell to Waterstones’s and Hello to Waterstones. Losing an apostrophe won’t make any difference to the pronunciation, but nonetheless the name change has been greeted with some outrage by some of the more [...]
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Posted by Kerry Maxwell on January 13, 2012
What do the months of January, April and July 2012 have in common? Here’s a clue: they might cause problems for anyone who suffers from paraskevidekatriaphobia. Still none the wiser? Okay, well, how about if I told you that any month in which the first day falls on a Sunday has a clash of day [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on January 13, 2012
After another short break, the weekly round-up posts return in 2012 with the usual selection of links related to recent language and words in the news. These can be items from the latest news, blog posts or interesting websites related to global English, language change, education in general, and language learning and teaching in particular. [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on January 12, 2012
content curation (noun) the process of analysing and sorting Web content and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme (definition source) Content curation has now come to mean the act of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a coherent way, organized around [...]
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