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Lady Thatcher and Tony Blair used ‘hubristic language’, research finds
A new study has found that British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and the late Lady Thatcher used hubristic language during their respective periods in office.
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Words We Love Too Much
A careful reader pointed out an increasingly common device: modifiers coined by tacking “centric” on to just about every noun in sight. After Deadline http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/words-we-love-too-much-11
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Learning to speak proper (The Economist)
Spread the word Mandarins push Mandarin Sep 21st 2013 | XIBIAN, FUJIAN PROVINCE |From the print edition AS MORE people around the world start to study Mandarin, China’s education ministry has revealed that much work still needs to be done teaching the language at home.
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Get a life! Working hours (The Economist)
Sep 24th 2013, 12:19 by C.W. and A.J.K.D. | LONDON BERTRAND RUSSELL, the English philosopher, was not a fan of work.
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Close but Not Quite
These aren’t the usual homophone missteps — bare for bear, or palate for palette. But in each case we seemed to have mixed up two vaguely similar words. Working too fast? Dictionary shelf too far away? After Deadline
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Bright Passages
Now, a brief respite from carping, and another small sampling of sparkling prose from recent editions. After Deadline http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/bright-passages-17/