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Posted by Kati Sule on July 09, 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.
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Posted by Mariana Ashley on July 08, 2010
After contributions from Philadelphia, Boston and San Francisco, we’re moving on again in the US. This guest post is contributed by Mariana Ashley, who writes on the topics of online colleges. Mariana welcomes your comments to this post either below or at her email address.
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Although often dismissed as backwards and isolated, the Rio Grande Valley [...]
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Posted by Stephen Handorf on July 07, 2010
After a brief visit to Philly and Boston, American English month continues with a guest blog from Stephen Handorf, editor and lexicographer in San Francisco. Stephen has a B.A. in linguistics and French from Cornell University and an M.A. in English as a Second Language from the University of Hawaii.
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Last month, the Texas Republican Party [...]
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Posted by Karen Stern on July 03, 2010
We started our grand tour of American English in Philadelphia. Our next destination is: Boston. Karen Stern, freelance lexicographer and editor, sent us this guest blog about her local American English.
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It’s 4th of July weekend here in the US, so it seemed only natural to dip into the version of American English spoken in the [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on July 02, 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.
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Posted by Vicki Hollett on July 01, 2010
Our first guest post for American English month comes from Vicki Hollett, English teacher and coursebook writer. Vicki writes a fantastic blog called Learning to speak ’merican.
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I’d better confess right away that I’m not a native American English speaker. If you could hear my accent, you’d spot in a jiffy that my native variety is [...]
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Posted by Laine Cole on June 30, 2010
Over here! Right over here in the red, white and blue … eyes off the ball for a minute! It’s American-English month, yeeha! We suggest that for the month of July you set your, of course, bookmarked/tabbed/favourited macmillandictionary.com to ‘American English‘ and practise pronouncing words in Am rather than Br … obviously, unless you do [...]
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Posted by Andrew Delahunty on June 29, 2010
England’s World Cup is over, following the team’s 4-1 defeat by Germany last Sunday. According to one online report of the match, ‘The first goal was a tribute to striker Miroslav Klose’s strength and poaching skills.’ Only a few days earlier, England fans had been celebrating a 1-0 victory over Slovenia. The scorer, with a [...]
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Posted by Dawn Nell on June 28, 2010
Although the World Cup is still on for another two weeks, we are slowly saying goodbye to South African English here on the blog. This is our final guest blog, from Dawn Nell, a Capetonian and historian. You can follow Dawn on Twitter.
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The description of South Africa as a Rainbow Nation is both a reality [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on June 25, 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.
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