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Posted by Kati Sule on June 11, 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 June 04, 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. Please contact us if you would like to submit a link for us to include. We’d love to hear [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on May 28, 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. Please contact us if you would like to submit a link for us to include. We’d love to hear [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on May 21, 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. Please contact us if you would like to submit a link for us to include. Global English Goddess English [...]
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Posted by Sharon Creese on May 20, 2010
My last post seemed to go down quite well, so I thought I’d have another look at the weird and wonderful words associated with animals in the English language, this time collective nouns. We’re all familiar with some of the strange words that can be used to describe groups of animals – a pod of [...]
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Posted by Sharon Creese on May 11, 2010
I was watching one of those ‘ahh-inducing’ animal rescue programmes the other day, and noticed a rather fun, and cute, word for the young of a particular species (I can’t tell you what it was, as it’s in the quiz below). Anyway, it set me thinking. We’re all familiar with terms like cub, pup, kit [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on May 07, 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. Please contact us if you would like to submit a link for us to include. Global English Longest word [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on December 21, 2009
Below are links to some of our most popular posts of the year. Many of the posts still have ongoing conversations so don’t hesitate to leave a comment! Horrible Americanisms? Who decides what is “good” or “correct” English when the way it is spoken differs from country to country? Casting a spell on English. Stephen [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on October 26, 2009
I’ve had an enlightening week reading Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. I’ve avoided his books – and most of the resulting movies – all my reading/watching life, as … well, I’m hellishly easy to scare (seriously, Ghostbusters scared me senseless). But his approach and his advice is straight-up and liberating rather [...]
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Posted by Drew Stanley on July 15, 2009
Collective nouns are tricky beasts. Or is the concept of collective nouns a tricky beast? The question of whether a collective noun requires a singular or plural verb to agree with it is one many find difficult to grasp, including myself, but then I have the mighty brains of the dictionary team here to help [...]
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