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Michael Gove has been the subject of this blog in the past . These days, he's no longer Education bod and is now Lord Chancellor, if you...

More from the No Such Thing As A Fish podcast. The Elves have an incredible breadth of knowledge, but by necessity cannot have an in-depth u...

Someone on a blog I read the other day posted this question, asking for advice: Does anyone know any tricks to know when English -ed is p...

This story recently appeared in the Guardian newspaper, about a schoolboy who bullied Tesco into changing some 'ungrammatical' word...

I read this utterly depressing article about the legal problems of rape cases in India. (Note that I'm not passing judgement on any pa...

Recently, English children aged 10-11 had to take their SATs (tests that children take every few years to check the school isn't useless...

Twitter has a search bar thing and in it, it says "enter a @name or username". Now, I've been pronouncing @name as "at na...

I've just finished reading the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. It was all right, not great literature but a fun enough read. Od...

I've been in Prague, because my lovely parents took me (and my sister) there for my 30th birthday. It was beautiful and interesting and...

From my Tumblr : [This is a reblog of a post by a meme tumblr which posts these memes made by 'English majors', and they're ...

Well, this is interesting. It's an article from the Economist, showing language diversity in several countries. It gives the probabilit...

Recently there was a trailer for a Radio 4extra programme hosted by Mel Giedroyc . In the trailer she used the phrase Life's weird and...

Why Swedish ? Well, why not. They're so much better than our boring old candidates for this honour, anyway.  One I like is  åsiktstali...

Young children see language as a more salient factor than race in determining identity, it seems. A study from the University of Chicago ...

I read a really nice piece in the Bangkok Post this week (yeah, I'm global). It was written by an Australian, as far as I can gather fr...

Mr T likes to get his grammar and spelling all correct when he writes facebook posts, so he checks things he's not sure about. Last nigh...

There's an article in the Guardian about a kitchen that talks to you in French and tells you how to make French dishes. I've actual...

I blog this blog over at Tumblr as well, as there's a linguistic community over there and Blogger is so uselessly hopeless at having an...

Faced with this sign, what would you do? Today I saw a woman frankly baffled by it. I'm not picking on the civic centre , really...

I did know that some of them existed, actually. The full list is here . It's an annoyingly ad-full page but worth persevering with to le...