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Language Barrier Continues to Thwart Victims of Crimes
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New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin
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The N-word: do we have to spell it out?
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The New York Times: Words We Love Too Much By PHILIP B. CORBETT MAY 6, 2014, 8:00 AM
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Vision of united Ukraine under violent attack
DONETSK, Ukraine — Diana Berg and Ekaterina Kostrova were brought up speaking Russian, but in the past few weeks they have discovered in themselves a new sense of Ukrainian patriotism. Theirs was a vision of a united Ukraine, a country with “European values” but with close ties to Russia, a country where it does not…
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Why ‘Mr Stink’ beats ‘King Solomon’s Mines’ for children today
From The Sunday Telegraph ‘No friend is as loyal as a book,” said Ernest Hemingway. That gets to the key point about books, which is that they are basically friends. They make life better. Especially if you get into them young: only last week a study revealed that children who were read to early in…