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Monthly Archives: January 2011
Fight library closures #savelibraries
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David Crystal on the value of libraries (& the supporting echo of countless august voices) #savelibraries
A powerful paen to the power of the library to shape minds. Yes: libraries have to respond to the challenge of a world where so much of the ‘reservoir’ of information that used to be restricted largely to physical library … Continue reading
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David Crystal on the value of libraries (& the supporting echo of countless august voices) #savelibraries
A powerful paen to the power of the library to shape minds. Yes: libraries have to respond to the challenge of a world where so much of the ‘reservoir’ of information that used to be restricted largely to physical library … Continue reading
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Tagged american, history, libraries, library, national library
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Who says nothing rhymes with ‘silver’?
Try this from the Oxford English Dictionary Amplify’d from oed.com chilver, n. View as: Outline | Full entry Pronunciation: /ˈtʃɪlvə(r)/ Etymology: Old English cilfer-, cilfor-lǫmb ewelamb, corresponding to Old High German chilburra A ewe-lamb: commonly chilver-lamb n. Also … Continue reading
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Who says nothing rhymes with ‘silver’?
Try this from the Oxford English Dictionary Amplify’d from oed.com chilver, n. View as: Outline | Full entry Pronunciation: /ˈtʃɪlvə(r)/ Etymology: Old English cilfer-, cilfor-lǫmb ewelamb, corresponding to Old High German chilburra A ewe-lamb: commonly chilver-lamb n. Also … Continue reading
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Tagged chilver-hog, chilver-lamb, commonly, ewe-lamb, old english
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Texting is Good for the English Language
Here is David Crystal on It’s Only a Theory from BBC4. It’s on YouTube so obviously (sigh) you won’t be able to see it in school, but it’s only 10 minutes or so and well worth a look for ENGB1 – … Continue reading
Twitter dialect says you are what you tweet – Rupert Cornwell, Commentators – The Independent
via independent.co.uk This article from The Independent combines issues of language change, language and technology (the rise of Twitter), attitudes to language and American English/globalisation in a festival of ENGB3 relevant discussion and examples. If my Y13 English Language students … Continue reading
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