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Language,

He, She and It: The Gender of Things

The English language has three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter Originally, when Old English was spoken, these ...

Nov 2014

Language,

Language Learning Tips, Tricks and Hacks

There are fewer tasks less daunting than standing before thousands of years of culture, literature, poetry, life and his...

Oct 2014

Literature,

The Hidden Novels in Translation

Literature in the English speaking world has a tendency to be particularly closed off to everything but English literatu...

Oct 2014

Language|Translation,

False Friends

False friends are pesky pairs of words that’ll have you asking an embarrassed woman if she’s pregnant and hiring a ...

Oct 2014

Language,

What’s That Smell?

The Jahai tribe are indigenous to certain areas in Malaysia Their language, eponymously called Jahai, is truly incredib...

Oct 2014

Language,

The Seven Funniest Marketing Mistranslations

In our globalised world, international corporations often struggle to effectively communicate their brand to new marke...

Oct 2014

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The Mrs, The Miss and the Mistress

In 1626, the first Master of the King’s Music, Nicholas Lanier, was appointed into the Royal Household 388 years late...

Sep 2014

Language,

5 Ways The Internet Is Changing English

English is incredibly adept at absorbing new words and phrases Other languages are tasteful scarves - English is a giant...

Sep 2014

Language,

Language Development and Autism

Most children develop language in a broadly consistent way: in their first few months babies will already have learned t...

Sep 2014

Language,

Five Tricks for Better Pronounciation

“The English speakers do not like language,” a Spanish-speaking friend once told me “They have all these lovely w...

Sep 2014