There’s a long history of communities speaking Romany in the UK, so it’s hardly surprising that some of its words have found their way into everyday English.
Whether someone’s speech is a language or a dialect is a matter of both linguistics and politics.
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Metaphors, analogies and comparisons abound when talking about the war in Ukraine, but are they helpful? An expert in peace and conflict resolution explains.
When teachers validate children’s ways of speaking, this can have a profound effect on the way they learn.
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Linguicism sees people penalised for speaking in non-standard forms of English.
A woman holds a placard with the words ‘language is a weapon’ written in Ukrainian during a 2020 protest of a bill that sought to widen the use of Russian in Ukrainian public education.
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To Russian nationalists, if the Ukrainian language is classified as a derivative of the Russian language, the invasion looks less like an act of aggression and more like reintegration.
A protest sign reads “Glory to Ukraine” in Ukrainian.
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Wordle has become an obsession online, with over 3 million daily players around the world. But the game has more in common with code-breaking than it does with crosswords.
The Oxford English Dictionary tries to include all words in English (particularly British and American English) from 1200 onwards.
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It appears that the rhythms of your brain waves get in sync with the speech patterns of the person you’re conversing with. Videoconferencing throws off that syncing process.
No one is forcing people to use “iel” with a gun to their head. But paradoxically, by making the pronoun the focus of attention, critics are inevitably making it more popular.
Baby talk is cute when used with babies. But when adults converse with each other? Not so much.
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