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Posted by Jonathan Cole on May 15, 2009
This post contains a weekly selection of links related to English language today. These can be items from the latest news, blog posts or interesting related websites. A new weekly review post will be posted every Friday. Please contact us if you would like to submit a link for us to include. News Immigrant women [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on May 15, 2009
Swine flu is the new BuzzWord on Macmillan Online Dictionary. For further reading on swine flu, see the links below. We welcome any comments on the latest BuzzWord article. Tourists who catch swine flu offered free Mexico holidays. Swine flu ‘fun’ facts. Laurie Garrett on lessons from the 1918 flu. Pulitzer winner Laurie Garrett gave [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on May 14, 2009
Language changes faster than most of us can keep up with. The average person has a vocabulary of about 50,000 words, so with the much hyped arrival of the millionth word in the English language, we all have a lot of work to do. Let’s start with pwn. This is the second of two posts [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on May 08, 2009
This post contains a weekly selection of links related to English language today. These can be items from the latest news, blog posts or interesting related websites. A new weekly review post will be posted every Friday. Please contact us if you would like to submit a link for us to include. News ‘It was [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on May 06, 2009
Have you come across the acronyms lol (laugh out loud) or brb (be right back) from texting or instant messaging? Perhaps you have lazily texted or typed C u 2mrw (see you tomorrow)? Are you a fan of the hugely popular Lol Cats (to the left) with their sometimes strange but often hilarious captioning language? [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on May 01, 2009
This post contains a weekly selection of links related to English language today. These can be items from the latest news, blog posts or interesting related websites. A new weekly review post will be posted every Friday. Please contact us if you would like to submit a link for us to include. News Vast language, [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on April 24, 2009
This post contains a weekly selection of links related to English language today. These can be items from the latest news, blog posts or interesting related websites. A new weekly review post will be posted every Friday. Please contact us if you would like to submit a link for us to include. News Email language [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on April 17, 2009
This post contains a weekly selection of links related to English language today. These can be items from the latest news, blog posts or interesting related websites. A new weekly review post will be posted every Friday. Please contact us if you would like to submit a link for us to include. News An Amazon [...]
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