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How to become a national treasure | Mind your language
It helps if you’ve been on Strictly Come Dancing, but anyone who has been in the public eye for more than about two minutes is eligible “National treasures are often fools and worse: dare I say that until last year Jimmy Savile was perhaps the greatest of them all?” Tanya Gold wrote in the Guardian […]
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Buy “Pragmatics and Prosody in ELT”Springer E-book with 50% discount
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Speaking it in the family | Mind your language
Familects – home dialects in which words are given private meanings – reveal that everyone has a creative and playful linguistic story Hearing a couple I know ask each other to pass the “splinkers” – their word for sweeteners – reminded me of the English Project’s collection of family slang, Kitchen Table Lingo, the blurb […]
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Dotcom vs traditional Universities?
The Economist 20/7/2013 An army of new online courses is scaring the wits out of traditional universities.
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My two volumes in Springer in E-book now. Special discount
buy my volumes i Springer with E-book special discount now Romero-Trillo (2012) Pragmatics and Prosody in ELT. Romero-Trillo (2013) Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 50% off eBooks in Philosophy, Education & Language The Special Promotion starts today and ends on July 23 Get your discount in The Springer Shop and benefit from unique advantages: […]
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Children’s intellectual development Bedtime stories Regular sleeping hours really are good for children—if they are girls The economist Jul 13th 2013
IN THAT mythical era when children were seen and not heard, and did as they were told without argument, everyone knew that regular bedtimes were important. “Dream on!” most modern parents might reply.