language and words in the news
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on June 05, 2009
This post contains a weekly selection of links related to English language today. These can be items from the latest news, blog posts or interesting related websites. A new weekly review post will be posted every Friday. Please contact us if you would like to submit a link for us to include. News Armstrong’s ‘poetic’ [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on June 04, 2009
Crowdsourcing, coined by journalist Jeff Howe, is the new BuzzWord on Macmillan Online Dictionary. For further reading on crowdsourcing, see the links below. We welcome any comments on the latest BuzzWord article. Summary of the crowdsourcing process in eight steps. A new term inspired by crowdsourcing: crowdfunding. The world’s first crowd-funded book (to be produced [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on June 02, 2009
While overnight singing sensation Susan Boyle is taking some time to recover in the Priory, dance group Diversity are celebrating their win in the final of the third series of Britain’s Got Talent. Diversity’s success has introduced street dance to TV audiences who may otherwise have been watching more old-fashioned genres on Strictly Come Dancing. [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on May 29, 2009
This post contains a weekly selection of links related to English language today. These can be items from the latest news, blog posts or interesting related websites. A new weekly review post will be posted every Friday. Please contact us if you would like to submit a link for us to include. News A human [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on May 27, 2009
234,000 of us chose a Burger King Whopper over our friends! In January, Burger King offered a free burger to anyone who defriended ten of their Facebook contacts. The campaign did not last long. Facebook objected to users being notified they had been defriended for a tenth of a burger. To acquire a burger, though [...]
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Posted by Kati Sule on May 25, 2009
You may not be aware that today is Towel Day. All around the world people remember and celebrate the creative genius of British author Douglas Adams by carrying a towel around with them. Douglas Adams did not only contribute to the literary genre of science fiction but to the English language too. Here is a [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on May 22, 2009
This post contains a weekly selection of links related to English language today. These can be items from the latest news, blog posts or interesting related websites. A new weekly review post will be posted every Friday. Please contact us if you would like to submit a link for us to include. News Language rated [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on May 21, 2009
‘The term Jade effect is a media creation based on an emerging productive pattern in English. The X effect, where X is a proper noun corresponding to someone in the public eye, describes a tendency for people to do a particular thing because they have taken inspiration from said person X.’
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Posted by Kati Sule on May 20, 2009
If you are a fan of reality TV shows (I’m not exactly!), then you’ll be happy to hear that a new series of Bachelorette has started. This mainly American English term is not new of course, but it’s seen many synonyms and probably more antonyms emerge of late. You only need to scan our Open [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on May 15, 2009
This post contains a weekly selection of links related to English language today. These can be items from the latest news, blog posts or interesting related websites. A new weekly review post will be posted every Friday. Please contact us if you would like to submit a link for us to include. News Immigrant women [...]
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