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10 Words That You May Have Been Misusing
A few of these are obvious, so I tweaked the title.
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Sounds Familiar? Accents and Dialects of the UK
The UK is a rich landscape of regional accents and dialects, each evidence of the society’ s continuity and change, its local history and Britons' day-to-day lives. This site captures and celebrates the diversity of spoken English in the second half of the twentieth century.
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How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk
What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer all the questions below to see your personal dialect map.
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Aunt, adult, pajamas: Why can't we agree how to pronounce common words?
Call it the problem of toilet-paper-roll words
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8 pronunciation errors that made the English language what it is today
David Shariatmadari: Think hyperbole rhymes with Super Bowl? Don't worry, it could be the start of something beautiful
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English Is Crazy!
Seriously...the English language is insane.
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Funky English Slang - 11 Expressions We Love!
We love English slang on Funky English. Slang words can help our speech sound more natural and add an element of fun to any informal conversation. Slang expres…
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The First Book Ever Printed in English Sells for Over a Million Dollars
Le Recueil des Histoires de Troye, a 1464 work by Raoul Lefèvre, tells a chivalirized version of the history of the city Troy. The Greek heroes, Hercules and Jason, are recast as ideal knights and founders of the Burgundian dynasty. It was translated by William Caxton into English soon after it was written and found popularity under its new title, The Recuyell of the Histories of Troye.
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Palace Denies Prince Andrew Sex Claims
Buckingham Palace has issued a strongly worded denial of allegations that Prince Andrew was involved in "impropriety with underage minors". The statement was released after the Duke of York was named in a US lawsuit. The woman who has made the allegations claims the disgraced US banker Jeffrey Epstein loaned her out to his friends, including Prince Andrew.
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How English has changed over the last 1000 years
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What Part of “No, Totally” Don’t You Understand?
Not long ago, I walked into a friend’s kitchen and found her opening one of those evil, impossible-to-breach plastic blister packages with a can opener. This worked, and struck me as brilliant, but I mention it only to illustrate a characteristic that I admire in our species: given almost any entity, we will find a way to use it for something other than its intended purpose.
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‘They,’ the Singular Pronoun, Gets Popular
Copy editors, dictionary officials and language experts seem to be coming around to using the gender-neutral ‘they’ in the singular, instead of ‘he or she.’
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Chamber Music
Review: ‘The Chambers Dictionary, 13th Edition.’ By Matthew Walther
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The History of the English Language, Animated
“The Sun never sets on the English language.”
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From plitter to drabbletail: the words we love
Dialect terms such as yokeymajig or whiffle-whaffle; all-time favourites like cochineal, clot or eschew; antiquated phrases such as ‘playing the giddy ox’ … leading writers on the words they cherish
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FAP... is now a word in the OED
I have now contributed to the modern English...
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The absurdity of English spelling and why we're stuck with it
Perfect spelling, vocabulary, usage, grammar, punctuation and style do not necessarily correlate perfectly with intelligence and competence, but most people infer that they do. Thus perception is reality.
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P.G. Wodehouse’s language is as American as it is British
The prolific writer utilized State-side slang in several works and is cited in the OED as a source for a number of American words. By Britt Peterson.
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The rise of Singlish
Singapore tried to make its multi-racial population speak English. They responded by making a hybrid language - Singlish - now 50 years old. By Tessa Wong.
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Why is Canadian English unique?
America’s neighbour resisted annexation by the US and its people remained subjects of the British monarch. But Canada’s English isn’t British or American.
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