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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’s blog is a guest post from English Trackers’ new intern Robynne. She studied Chinese at university but her real passion is social media. Image: fullygeek.com A few days ago we blogged about how the rise of the Internet, and in particular social media, has led to the inclusion of words such as ‘retweet’ and ‘sexting’ in . . . → Read More: OMG I <3 that they have put LOL in the dictionary! 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 We’re excited to launch our series of written and recorded exchanges entitled “English at work”. We’re hoping to meet and hear from all sorts of people who use English at work. The English language generates huge revenues . . . → Read More: English at Work – The Voice Over Expert As we all know, language is constantly evolving with new words continuously coming into circulation and every passing year sees one or two crackers being coined, whether it be in response to political events, social trends or fashion fads. Take a look at this amusing post from the Guardian Books Blog on some of the best new words . . . → Read More: Noughtyisms |
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