Semicolons are becoming increasingly rare; their disappearance should be resisted

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· May 24, 2025 · 05:30 pm

‘Literally blew my mind’: Why the the non-literal use of English is here to stay

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· Dec 30, 2024 · 10:00 pm

‘Rickshaw’ has its roots in Japanese, and ‘hinterland’, in German: Shashi Tharoor writes about words

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· Aug 28, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Do languages really ‘live’ or ‘die’?: Why the metaphor is misleading

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· Jul 18, 2023 · 07:30 pm

Lessons from Chhattisgarh’s new English-medium school programme

Johanna Deeksha

· Nov 30, 2022 · 06:30 am

Five myths about Shakespeare’s contribution to the English language

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· Sep 09, 2022 · 05:30 pm

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David Sidhu, The Conversation

· Feb 01, 2022 · 07:30 pm

Codecracking and competition: Why the online world has fallen in love with the word puzzle Wordle

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· Jan 26, 2022 · 07:30 pm

If you liked Netflix’s ‘The Chair’, read these four novels set in English departments

Lucas Thompson, The Conversation

· Nov 03, 2021 · 08:30 am

Debunked: Five myths about what standard English is – and what it isn’t

Willem Hollmann, The Conversation

· Oct 13, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Watch: ‘Neighbourhood Teacher’ shows how language and words reveal casteist mentality

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· Oct 11, 2020 · 05:27 pm

Grammar Nazis can cede the high ground. These five grammatical ‘errors’ are not errors at all

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· Mar 16, 2020 · 05:30 pm

The irony in misusing the word ‘irony’ is growing, and endangering its real meaning

Roger J Kreuz, The Conversation

· Feb 27, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Five common English words we may all be using incorrectly (because mistakes are perpetuated)

Simon Horobin, The Conversation

· Oct 31, 2019 · 05:30 pm

How two young global desis learnt to make English their own language in India

Kalpana Mohan

· Oct 03, 2019 · 07:30 am

Merriam-Webster adds non-binary pronoun ‘they’ to the dictionary

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· Sep 18, 2019 · 02:18 pm

Millennialspeak: ‘Like’ is not a lazy linguistic filler. The word has, like, a grammar of its own

Rebecca Woods, The Conversation

· Aug 25, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Wimmen, meen and greeve: How Noah Webster tried to create a truly American English dictionary

Peter Martin, Aeon

· Jun 27, 2019 · 11:30 pm

Linguists have identified the weirdest languages – and English is one of them

Adam Schembri, The Conversation

· Apr 20, 2019 · 08:30 pm

Watch: This social experiment suggests many Indians think better of those who speak English well

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· Aug 20, 2018 · 05:00 pm