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I really was the nerd in the car that read vocabulary books. If we were going on day trips, I would quite like to have
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I really was the nerd in the car that read vocabulary books. If we were going on day trips, I would quite like to have
From the start, English has happily absorbed words from every tongue it’s encountered.
Super Tuesday is the day on which most states hold their primaries. Its darker partner is Dirty Tricks Thursday: the Thursday before an election when
Can I get a mochaccino?’: a statement that, for many, is worse than any number of nails down a blackboard. Not on account of the
According to my parents, I’ve always liked to tune into the conversations of others. But rather than hope for a snippet of salacious gossip, it
Unlike our neighbours on the mainland of Europe, we have resisted creating an academy to legislate over proper English. We each have our linguistic bugbear,
Slang has always moved this way. From Cockney rhyming slang to codes swapped among highwaymen, they’re tribal badges of identity, bonding mechanisms designed to distinguish
The one thing – apart from assumptions about German – that I have to challenge frequently is people assuming that lexicographers are fierce protectors of
The extraordinary thing about new words is that probably only about one per cent of them are new. Most are old words revived and adapted.
In the 1900s, bleaching lotions and skin-lighteners were a female imperative no matter what her colour, often carrying suggestive names like ‘Fair-Plex Ointment’ and ‘Black-No-More.’
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