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Mach and mascarpone: testing how vocabulary is gendered

A survey has shown an ‘awesomely sexist’ discrepancy between the English words understood by different genders (The Guardian Language blog)

July 2, 2014
New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin (27/06/2014)

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June 28, 2014
Never mind the hyperbolics. Please can I have some less?

When writers overuse hyperbole, it’s not just the readers who suffer – it’s the language

June 22, 2014
New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin (20/6/2014)

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June 21, 2014
Internet Language Research

The Economist (19-06-2014) IF YOU’VE been on Facebook recently, and you’re the kind of person who reads this column, there’s a good chance you’ve seen one of two viral language tests going round. Like many things on Facebook, they’re a fun diversion. Unlike many things on Facebook, they’re helping serious researchers learn about language and…

June 19, 2014
If something’s famous, you don’t need to tell people

If something’s famous, you don’t need to tell people; if you need to tell people something’s famous, it isn’t I am, famously, trying to discourage people from using this meaningless, annoying and downright misleading cliche

June 16, 2014

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