Pretoria News Weekend

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EVERY year, the home of world-renowned language data, Oxford Languages, releases its word of the year. However, due to this unprecedented time, the institution has decided to select several official words of the year. The English language has undergo

The Christian Science Monitor

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What makes a story, a story? For Harry Bruinius, the Monitor’s New York bureau chief, it’s the moment a person’s life changes. He has long brought this approach to his reporting, covering issues of religion, race, and even gun violence.

Saturday Star

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EVERY year, the home of world-renowned language data, Oxford Languages, releases its word of the year. However, due to this unprecedented time, the institution has decided to select several official words of the year. The English language has undergo

The Guardian

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We shouldn’t worry when a word falls into obscurity. There’s usually a good reason, and a new one will always fill its place

Woman

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Parading my new hairdo in front of my daughter, Hannah, 29, I was beaming. But it wasn’t because I liked the cut, rather that I’d managed to go to the salon in Mexico and tell them exactly what I wanted, all by myself, and in Spanish. Just two years

The Guardian

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Influential people have always had the power to change language. The president’s late-night typo sent the internet crazy, but will it stick around?

MASK The Magazine

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Do: Use proper language, grammar, and spelling. Be explanatory. Justify your opinions. Credit ideas of others; cite and link to scholarly resources. Avoid: Misinforming others when you may not know the answer. If you are guessing about, clearly state

You South Africa

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Language is such a powerful tool for connecting with the world and the people around us. With YOU Learn 4 Languages kids of various ages can sharpen their vocabulary in their mother tongue and learn how to say everyday words in four languages: Englis

India Today

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Saura, Munda, Kui, Juanga-all tribal languages from Odisha-are just some of 124 languages that can be found on StoryWeaver, a treasure trove of engaging illustrated books for children. The storybooks are categorised according to reading levels, with

Scoop

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I was wondering how to begin writing this. I stared at the blank page and it stared back at me. I had so much to say, but the words didn’t seem to be to hand: perhaps the subject was just too complex. It must have been like this when my grandma first

NPR

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There are no exceptions. If a piece being prepared for broadcast has an offensive word or phrase, or involves excretory or sexual issues, care and consultation are required.

Nautilus

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You’d be forgiven if, settling into the fall 2003 “Literature of the 16th Century” course at University of California, Berkeley, you found the unassuming 70-year-old man standing at the front of the lecture hall a bit eccentric. For one thing, the cl

India Today

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Q. How do you look back at your 53-year-long career as a playback singer? I have had a dream journey. Some of my career’s highlights have also been the challenges. For instance, the fact that I was a live performer before I became a playback singer.

APC

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Free/subs There’s quite a few different language learning apps around, and as Drops was in a recommended list I figured it was worth a try. It hosts a plethora of different languages to choose from, and then teaches them to you using a drag and drop

You South Africa

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One of my fondest childhood memories is of sitting on my dad’s lap, a Richard Scarry word book open on his knee. He’d point at the cute pictures that crowded the page and my job was to identify each object. How clever I felt! And it was such fun. Per

Writing Magazine

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I’ve been writing novels for more than ten years but only recently decided to become a member of the Society of Authors and wish I had spent a few of the pounds it has cost blundering about getting books published on POD for my friends (and hopefully

Sparkle Buds Magazine

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What does it mean? to cause to feel shock, horror, or disgust For example... Dan was appalled by Mark’s foul language.

Writer's Digest

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“You’re an oceanographer?” The librarian shakes his head, incredulous, his spectacles tossing a circle of sunlight on the floor between us. “I always knew I wanted to be a novelist,” I reply. “So, naturally, I spent the first two decades of my adult

BBC History Magazine

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”Glee” is the Middle English word for the Latinate ”pleasure” and ”music”. Thus, ”mind-glee” means pleasure/music of the mind. “Sill”, as in window sill, means threshold. So Barnes’ “skysill” translates to threshold of the sky. Barnes explains this t

The Atlantic

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When people share a space, their collective experience can sprout its own vocabulary, known as a familect.

Literary Hub

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I read once that every time we learn something new, neural pathways form in our brains, physical proof that we have been amazed or surprised or shocked by something. Knowing little about the the brain, I have always imagined that each of us carries i

Business Today

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“DIFFERENT LAN-GUAGES HAVE their nuances. Merely translating does not capture its deep semantics; under-standing a language natively is important,” says Gargi B. Dasgupta, Director, IBM Research India, and CTO of IBM India and South Asia. Under her l

Vogue Australia

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Lahiri examines her relationship with English and Italian, a language she fell in love with as a student in Florence, in this lyrical autobiography. When the late Australian author was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2015, she suffered a loss of lan

Cycling Weekly

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One of the pleasures of cycling is the great many athletes whose names are in languages other than your own. There are three basic approaches – and for the sake of argument I’m going to assume your native language is English. The first option is just

WellBeing

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In 1969 some psychologists came up with the “Pollyanna hypothesis”, the idea that there is a universal human tendency to use positive words more frequently than negative ones. This was just an untested theory, until researchers gathered billions of w

Futurity

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The violent breach of the Capitol was a culmination of communication between President Trump and his most fanatical supporters, says linguistic anthropologist Janet McIntosh. “The register of cryptic-yet-knowing talk among Trump supporters and Q afic

Literary Hub

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In the early 90s, I had a puzzling conversation with a college classmate. He told me about a movie he’d seen. I asked him if he liked it. “It was all right,” he said. “A little cheesy.” I had just arrived in the United States to study abroad. The mov

Literary Hub

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Me and my sister had our own language as children. I was an inventor of language—of elaborate code in my childhood diaries, rune-like and incomprehensible, and of big words, as many as you could fit into a sentence. But this language, it was between

Futurity

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A new automated method makes communications more polite, researchers report. Specifically, the method takes nonpolite directives or requests—those that use either impolite or neutral language—and restructures them or adds words to make them more well

The American Poetry Review

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I first read Jos Charles’s feeld as a Word document two years ago. I admired her first book, Safe Space, and wanted to know what she was working on next. When I started to read the poems in the new manuscript, I felt like the words were physically li