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Is it time we agreed on a gender-neutral singular pronoun? (The Guardian, 30 Jan 2015)
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Hedging Our Bets
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Using ‘literally’ metaphorically is literally spreading like wildfire (The Guardian 24-10-2014)
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Not enough time for counting (The Economist 23-10-2014)
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The Slang Patrol (NYT 14-10-2014)
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Scots English: do you know your teuchters from your sassenachs?
Mind your Language (The Guardian), 3-10-2014 Irrespective of the political fallout from the independence referendum, the UK’s language patchwork is stronger having retained the rich tradition of Scots English An illustration from The Poetical Works of Robert Burns (1888), showing Tam o’ Shanter with his ‘drouthy neibors’ – thirsty fellows in the pub. Photograph: /flickr There…