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Nice piece on Language Johnson, an Economist blog dedicated to language use, on the recent influx of 'Britishisms' into American English. Apparently, 'kerfuffle', 'snog', 'nick' and 'c...
READ MORE | 15 Nov 2011
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European Ventures Seek to Fill a Void in World News
Stumbled on this fascinating article in the New York Times about three new news services, Worldcrunch, European Daily and Presseurop which take articles from leading European newspapers and trans...
READ MORE | 3 Nov 2011
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Googling the ghosts of Montparnasse cemetery
With Halloween just round the corner what could be more appropriate than this fun piece from the BBC's Radio 4 From Our Correspondent on some of the illustrious graves of Paris's Montparnasse cemetery...
READ MORE | 28 Oct 2011
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Speak to the Future: The Campaign for Languages
Speak to the Future is a new campaign sponsored by the British Academy and the Chartered Institute of Linguists among others with the purpose of highlighting the importance of languages, language lear...
READ MORE | 26 Oct 2011
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The Talking Kitchen That Teaches You French
Wonderful video on the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council's YouTube Page of a new experiment at Newcastle University that gives lessons in cooking and French at the same time. Cou...
READ MORE | 25 Oct 2011
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If you don't know already, the London Language Show 2011 starts tomorrow at Olympia London and runs from 21st to the 23rd of October. If you've not been before, the London Language Show is ideal for l...
READ MORE | 20 Oct 2011
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Slow Down! Why Some Languages Sound So Fast
A recent article in Time Magazine highlights a fascinating piece of research into whether some languages truly do sound faster than others. Researchers from the Université de Lyon recruited vol...
READ MORE | 4 Oct 2011
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Paypal Express Goes Live on Site
We now accept Paypal Express as part of the payment options in our shop. Please let us know if you would like us to add other payment options....
READ MORE | 30 Sep 2011
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Why do some Americanisms irritate people?
Entertaining piece on the BBC News Magazine web site of the supposed deluge of new American words entering everyday British English. The article cites the usage of 'stepping up to the plate'--a baseba...
READ MORE | 21 Jul 2011
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Where Latin and Arabic Meet: A Bridging of Two Alphabets
Wonderful piece from The New Yorker on Lebanese designer Rana Abou Rjeily's creation of Mirsaal, a typeface family expressly designed to work in both the Latin and Arabic alphabets. In Mirsaal, the ca...
READ MORE | 30 Jun 2011
