Posts Tagged ‘gender’
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Posted by Jamie Keddie on May 18, 2009
In the English class, teachers can make use of internet search engines to answer students’ linguistic queries such as: “Which is more common – look after yourself or take care of yourself?” In the following pie chart, figures refer to the number of Google hits obtained by running a web search of these two items: [...]
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Posted by Michael Rundell on March 24, 2009
Cricket is the most quintessentially English game, but is famously incomprehensible to anyone who hasn’t been brought up with it. (The phrase in the title here makes perfect sense to an aficionado of the game but could easily be misinterpreted by anyone else.) George W. Bush – not the sharpest knife in the drawer – [...]
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