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Can You Spell That, Please?
Always double-check the spelling of names, our most common source of errors. And let’s triple-check names with multiple popular versions — like “Katherine,” “Katharine,” Catherine,” “Cathryn” and “Kathryn.” After Deadline http://ift.tt/L6nTSQ
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Twitter journal: would you share your original research on social media?
Will the launch of the first Twitter-only journal, publishing original peer-reviewed research direct to the reader, take off? Last week, I received a tweet from @janremm who was midway through a conversation – on Twitter – about how to cite tweets within academic research. She was talking with @jotaigna, who asked in what way a […]
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The language of power
DESCENDING from the corporate equivalent of the lofty Swiss Magic Mountain dreamt up by Thomas Mann in his great 20th-century novel of the same name, your reporter has been decompressing from days of Davos-speak among the tycoons, oligarchs and well-heeled hangers-on.A mixture of corporate jargon, future-fixation and deployment of airy concepts intended to convey prescient […]
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About a girl
Spirit Rising: My Life, My Music. By Angélique Kidjo. HarperCollins; 256 pages; $27.99 and £20 ANGELIQUE KIDJO’S childhood in Benin was a whirl of different languages and cultural influences. Hers was a family that spoke French, Fon and Yoruba, and placed equal emphasis on Catholic rites and indigenous spiritual rituals. This mixing has had a continuing impact on […]
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Seeing red | Mind your language
A shocking story of verbal abuse suggests we should be more sensitive about using the word ‘ginger’ A couple of months ago, police were called in when red-haired pupils at an academy in Yorkshire were the victims of “kick a ginger kid day”. An isolated incident? Perhaps not. “This letter is to respectfully ask that […]
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Slave trade documents among illegal Foreign Office cache
Papers might provide information for people seeking compensation for ancestors’ suffering, says historian Historic papers about the slave trade are among the enormous cache of public documents that the Foreign Office has unlawfully hoarded in a secret archive, the Guardian has learned. Some of the papers appear to date back to 1662 and are thought […]