language and words in the news
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Posted by Michael Rundell on June 02, 2010
English morphology is famously simple. Most nouns have just two forms (dog, dogs), most verbs only four (walk, walks, walking, walked). By contrast, a regular Spanish verb can have 42 forms, while in Hungarian that can easily go up to 60 or more (see example verb here). And – since we are in South Africa [...]
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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.
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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.
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Global English
Goddess [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on May 18, 2010
This time a slightly delayed and shorter version …
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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 [...]
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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.
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Global English
Longest [...]
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Posted by Beth Penfold on May 06, 2010
Could it be that the Macmillan Dictionary Blog has become a hotbed of nihilist political views? Are we seeing political apathy in extremis?
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Nah.
Just want to whinge on about one of my old bugbears, namely, the misuse of the words hanged and hung.
One of the many embarrassing truths about our past is that Blighty used to [...]
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Posted by Michael Rundell on May 05, 2010
The UK is in the grip of election fever, and elections – like wars – always give rise to new words and phrases. Like the last US presidential election, this is the first major British one of the Web 2.0 era. This adds to the unpredictability of it all, and ensures that anything interesting spreads [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on April 30, 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 [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on April 24, 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 [...]
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Posted by Sharon Creese on April 22, 2010
This week’s BuzzWord is robocall, and takes a look at those irritating automated phone calls that have become a feature of so many sales, marketing, and now electoral campaigns in recent years. I should warn you, though, I’m about to get on my soapbox; I absolutely hate automated phone calls.
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To my mind, there is no [...]
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