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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on January 16, 2013
Here it is, the final update before the competition closes at midnight GMT on the 21st. That’s 6 days left to vote! An additional 5,511 votes have been received in the last 7 days, bringing the total number of votes cast since the competition began to 9,111. Thank you for participating and continuing to show [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on January 09, 2013
With just under two weeks to go before voting closes, the votes are coming in thick and fast. We’ll be announcing the winners and runners-up for the second Love English Awards on January 22nd. All the blogs and websites have been nominated by members of the public for being informative, insightful, and engaging sites or [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on December 05, 2012
We’re only a week into the Love English competition and things are already moving along swiftly! Here is your first competition update. So far 17 blogs and 11 websites have been nominated with a total of 111 votes being cast for blogs and 20 votes for websites. The most popular websites as of today are [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on October 11, 2012
pre-drinking (noun) (also pre-lash) the practice of drinking alcohol at home before going out to a club or pub, in order to save money Trust me when I say that ‘pre-drinking’ will save you LOADS if you do it correctly. (Submitted from United Kingdom) Well. A number of things: It’s sad, isn’t it? We are [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on September 20, 2012
rubberneck (verb) to stand on one’s toes in a crowd of ardent admirers to see a celebrity passing by Surely he meant to say that “celebrity drivel and rubbernecking are what drive our site”. (Submitted by: Matti Salonen from Finland) Actually we have this word in the main dictionary but with this definition: to look [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on September 13, 2012
sock puppetry (noun) writing very flattering reviews of one’s own book on sites such as Amazon, but using a different name so that people do not know that it’s the author writing about his or her own book Authors including Lee Child, Mark Billingham, Joanne Harris, Charlie Higson and Tony Parsons have signed up to [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on August 30, 2012
laugh (noun) Are you having a laugh?: an informal British phrase used to challenge something someone says or does that seems ridiculous or insulting to the speaker. “That’ll be twenty pounds please.” “Twenty quid for a bottle of shampoo? Are you having a laugh?“ (Submitted from the United Kingdom) The Brits are pretty subtle with [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on August 16, 2012
peloton (noun) in cycling and other sports, the main group of competitors In the fluid motion of the peloton there’s one golden rule: if you’re not moving forwards, you’re moving backwards. (Submitted from the United Kingdom) There’s a whole world of language in every sport, isn’t there? And some of it so poetic. Peloton comes [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on August 03, 2012
door (verb) if a cyclist gets doored, they crash into the door of a stationary vehicle that someone has carelessly opened Getting hit by a car or doored is a fairly common experience for city cyclists and pedestrians. (Submitted from United Kingdom) I love a verbing of a good, solid noun. And a door is [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on July 19, 2012
desire path (noun) (also desire line) a planning term referring to a path made by walkers or cyclists, as opposed to one that is officially planned A paper by Carl Myhill examines how companies can be successful by focusing on the desire lines of their products and customers… (Submitted from United Kingdom) There’s something rather [...]
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