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March 14, 2017

10 Words That Have Crossed the Atlantic

Linguistics expert and fellow reader, Dr Lynne Murphy, regularly blogs about her observations of the ever-adapting…

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March 2, 2017

Did a 19th Century Phrasebook Inspire Monty Python?

In the 1800s a Portuguese man named Pedro Carolino gave a brave attempt to write a…

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Language Literature

February 22, 2017

Jokes to Make a Reading Addict Smile

All Reading Addicts need a bit of a laugh now and again so we have scoured…

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November 27, 2016

Twenty Tricky Tongue Twisters

Language is an amazing thing, it can be used to comfort, to warn, to reassure,…

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November 17, 2016

Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year Sums up 2016 Perfectly

Every year, Oxford Dictionaries announced an international word of the year. That is one word…

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September 20, 2016

Celebrating the Birth of the Emoticon and its Pictogram Cousin Emoji.

There is a little contention surrounding when the emoticon was first created, and by whom,…

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September 13, 2016

OED Adds Six ‘Dahlesque’ Words for Centenary

The whole world has gone crazy for the biggest Roald Dahl Day ever, as we…

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Language

August 30, 2016

A Dictionary Full of Victorian Slang

I love how language is always in a state of flux, constantly changing and evolving…

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August 20, 2016

15 Fantastic English Factoids and Idioms

English is a funny old language, influenced by centuries of history and wonderful writers. Our…

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July 24, 2016

8 Anglo Saxon Words we Need to Bring Back

The English language is a fluid thing, it is in a constant state flux, evolving…

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