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War of the words: the global conflict that helped shape our language
(The Guardian 26/9/2014) From genocide and kamikaze to radar and spam, the second world war had a dramatic effect on English
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Essentially, spoken words are awesome (The Guardian 19/9/2014)
If our most-used words are anything to go by, we spend too much time on Google and are obsessed with smartphones. Is language that transparent?
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Night of the living dead nouns (The Economist 18/9/2014)
VERBING nouns annoys a lot of people.
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Word processing (what is a word?)
The question might seem easy.
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Let’s eat Grandma! How to use, and not use the comma
‘If you could edit your past, what would you change?’ ‘I’d get rid of all the commas’ – Peter Carey A misplaced comma can provide hours of fun on the web but sabotage the meaning of a sentence.