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Words: that the midwife used to record my birth
Words: on the birth certificate signed by my parents
Words: in my first passport that took me to other places
Words: that my mother used to tell me bedtime stories
Words: that I learned to read in my first school
Words: that I wrote with pencil in my first schoolbook
Words: of another . . . → Read More: The Girl Effect
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What type of foods need baconisation? (Image: Blogchef.net) In recent years, it seems to have become fashionable to add the suffix ‘-isation’ to popular topics to create buzz words. When added to a word, ‘-isation’ creates a noun that denotes the act, process or result of an action e.g. general (adjective) + isation = generalisation (noun). When . . . → Read More: Insufferable suffixes! Today, 26 September 2011, marks the 10th annual European Day of Languages (EDL). Following the success of the European Year of Languages in 2001, its organisers the Council of Europe and the European Union made the decision to continue the EDL in order to promote lifelong language learning and preserve Europe’s rich linguistic heritage. With approximately . . . → Read More: European Day of Languages, 26th September Yesterday I blogged about the publication of the new Concise Oxford English Dictionary and as I wrote I wondered what happened to the words that were literally pushed out of the dictionary to make way for new words. A journalist friend seemingly telepathically picked up my query and sent me a link to an article that provided . . . → Read More: Disappearing words As society evolves, so does language. And where better to track the changes than the dictionary. This month, Oxford University Press publishes a centenary edition in the form of the 12th edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary. The growth of social media has spawned a whole new vocabulary and some of the dictionary’s new entries, such . . . → Read More: New times – new words |
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