Recent Comments
benitanoel46093 on A ‘Glosoli’ Fairy… Ursula Fox on Romeo & Juliet – com… Jazza y SazzA (Jazz… on Romeo & Juliet – com… Codie O'Brien on Romeo & Juliet – com… Sarah on Romeo & Juliet – com… 
Dan Clayton’s English Language Blog- Connections between texts on Paper 1: dealing with AO4
- What's it all about?
- Tackling 'in defence of good grammar'
- Analysing texts about language
- Specialist knowledge for non-specialist readers
- Opinion pieces for exam revision
- Getting the Word Out 2022
- Accent bias: a guest blog for TEFL Workers' Union
- Accent attitudes: lessons in discourses
- Accent bias in the media
- David Crystal’s blog
- Dreame on
- Shakespeare's Words version 3.0 launches today
- Day Courses in 2018
- English language weekend update
- On an English language weekend
- On myths and the making of the OED
- On Mundolingua
- On a dialect labour of love, and a Hopkins illustration
- On the reported death of the full-stop / period
- On Philomena Cunk, the name
- The Language Log
- Greater China Co-Prosperity Sushi and Ramen Kitchen
- Revelation: Scythians and Shang
- Annals of inventive pinyin: rua
- The rise (and fall?) of shiesties
- Dog bites man: Indian wins spelling bee
- Pronouncing "DeSantis"
- Sinological formatting
- Just < Not the same as it was
- Austronesian languages of Taiwan
- Historical speech styles
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Those pesky medalling journalists!
The Olympic games were always bound to be a source of some controversy, but it’s the use of the word ‘medal’ as a verb that is really getting people worked up, it seems. I’ve heard this usage on BBC Radio … Continue reading
Posted in A2 Lang, Attitudes to Language
Leave a comment
BBC News – Fifty words for rain
BBC News – Fifty words for rain. This could make an interesting starting point for a language investigation and is certainly an excellent style model for the ENGB4 media text.
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Heald English 