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Global English
An editor at the still point of a turning world
As far as the Old Editor can discern, the lie/lay distinction is essentially gone in U.S. speech and slowly vanishing in writing.
Language change and slang
Bird Talk
As a slang lexicographer I have long espoused the men-only theory. I am no longer so sure.
Words, books and language
Syntactic Self-Harm on St. James’s Street
They were baiting me, I conjectured, because I had repeatedly mocked their absurd allegiance to the zombie rule banning split infinitives.
UK’s oldest hand-written document ‘at Roman London dig’
Roman tablets discovered during an excavation in London include the oldest hand-written document ever found in Britain, archaeologists have revealed.
Humour
Say What? The Best Chinglish from Two Years in China
One of the simple pleasures I enjoyed during my time in China was coming across delightfully confusing or inappropriate English translations, or Chinglish.
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