Author Archive
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Posted by Kati Sule on November 30, 2010
Another week, another look around the archive and another reminder of some excellent posts we’ve had on this blog about colourful, inventive uses of language. Enjoy! Don’t tell the parents! I love this blog from aggslanguage, which illustrates the different forms of slang used across Britain, and tries to explain this teenage lexicon to baffled [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on November 26, 2010
This weekly 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. Please do contact us if you would like to submit [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on November 24, 2010
Another popular theme on this blog is change in the English language which somehow seems to get under people’s skin. Here is a selection of archived posts around this topic: Netting, texting, impacting and sheeting through the centuries – more about verbing and nouning Multiple word-class membership is an essential part of the character of [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on November 20, 2010
This weekly 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. This week the post is shorter, sweeter … and also [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on November 16, 2010
A popular theme on this blog is language change and, more specifically, the way in which words are taking (or have taken) on new meanings. Here is a selection of archived posts on new uses of old words: I’m a lexicographer get me out of here A call for a new definition for the word [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on November 12, 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, and education in general, and language learning and teaching in particular. Please do contact us if you would like [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on November 05, 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, and language education too. Do contact us if you would like to submit a link for us to include. [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on October 22, 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, and language education too. Do contact us if you would like to submit a link for us to include. [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on October 15, 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, and language education too. Do contact us if you would like to submit a link for us to include. [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on October 08, 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, and language education too. Do contact us if you would like to submit a link for us to include. [...]
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