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WHAT DO YOU CALL YOUR GRANDMOTHER? from kendrive ^Pro 264 days old

My grandparents are now long dead, but when I was a boy I called my maternal grandmother "Grandma" and my paternal one "Nanna". Years later, when ...

SOME NEW, SOME OLD from kendrive ^Pro 309 days old

If you don't pay your exorcist, you get repossessed. Those who jump off a bridge in Paris are in Seine. A man's home is his castle, in a manor ...

BUNGALOWS FROM BENGAL from kendrive ^Pro 354 days old

HOW THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE SOAKED UP WORDS FROM AROUND THE WORLD A new prize-winning book, 'The Secret Life of Words', tells how many English words ...

LATIN - A DEAD LANGUAGE? from kendrive ^Pro 378 days old

[ ... ] richest language and is the "linguistic equivalent of ethnic cleansing". Bournemouth Council, which has the Latin motto Pulchritudo et ...

ANAGRAMS from kendrive ^Pro 444 days old

DORMITORY: When you rearrange the letters: DIRTY ROOM PRESBYTERIAN: When you rearrange the letters: BEST IN PRAYER ASTRONOMER: When you rearrange ...

TEACHING ENGLISH IN FRENCH - IN SCOTLAND from kendrive ^Pro 575 days old

BILINGUAL SCHOOL An Aberdeen school which has pioneered bilingual education has been judged a resounding success, a report has said. Under the scheme, ...

JUST AS I WAS GETTING USED TO "COOL" from kendrive ^Pro 594 days old

LANGUAGE FORCES DICTIONARY UPDATE A £34 million pound project to update the definitions of English words is being sped up because of the rate at which ...

I HAVE NEVER HUNKERED DOWN - OR UP FOR THAT MATTER from kendrive ^Pro 606 days old

One of my blog 'friends' wrote yesterday: "Usually when I get ill, I just hunker down and let it ride until I start to feel better." Now I worked ...

'PUT BENGALI ON PAR WITH FRENCH' SAYS OFSTED from kendrive ^Pro 633 days old

[ ... ] were too few language teachers to make it work. Steve Sinnott, the general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: "There is a great ...

IT DON'T MAKE SENSE from kendrive ^Pro 726 days old

I was commenting the other day on incorrect grammar and spelling. I said that it often arose from ignorance but, as it became widespread, it was accepted ...