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Christmas Pov quiz
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Please give up your seats for articles less able to stand | Mind your language
Anything and everything is ‘yours’ these days – it’s a relentless barrage of personalisation “Welcome aboard your 17.53 London Overground service to Stratford. Your estimated arrival time is 18.54. Please keep your personal belongings with you at all times. CCTV is in operation for your personal safety and security. Your next stop is Kew Gardens.…
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Hanukah or Chanukah? Have the chutzpah to embrace Yiddish
A vocabulary bereft of schmooze, schlep, shtick, klutz, spiel, maven or glitch would be much the poorer Happy Hanukah! Or should that be Chanukah? Chastened by misspelling cwtch in a previous post, I double-checked every Yiddish word – and opened a can of worms. Guardian Style prefers the former (although the latter occasionally sneaks past),…
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Found in Translation By HAMID DABASHI (NYT 28/7/2013
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The Economist: The revival of Latin Resurrexit vere A dead language is alive and kicking online and on the airwaves
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How to become a national treasure | Mind your language
It helps if you’ve been on Strictly Come Dancing, but anyone who has been in the public eye for more than about two minutes is eligible “National treasures are often fools and worse: dare I say that until last year Jimmy Savile was perhaps the greatest of them all?” Tanya Gold wrote in the Guardian…