Category: The English Language
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How the English language became such a mess
By James Harbeck8th June 2015 You may have seen a poem by Gerard Nolst Trinité called The Chaos. It starts like this: Dearest creature in creation Studying English pronunciation, I...
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The 39 Best Books To Read If You Want To Seriously Improve Your Literary Prowess
You won’t be able to put them down BY AMY BREWSTER20/04/2020 Whether you love a fiction novel, a heartbreaking memoir or a laugh-out-loud biography, there are some books everyone just *has*...
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How to read Shakespeare for pleasure
April 21, 2020 6.12pm AEST In recent years the orthodoxy that Shakespeare can only be truly appreciated on stage has become widespread. But, as with many of our habits and assumptions,...
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Thanks to the Globe Theatre, You Can Officially Stream Shakespeare’s Best Plays for Free
By Rachel Bowie | Apr. 19, 2020 | 12:00 PM The Globe Theatre is *the* place in the world to go and see Shakespeare—except that, right now, most of the world is under stay-at-home orders thanks to COVID-19,...
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The American Accent Is Older Than the British Accent?
Written by Reuben Westmaas’ The first English people to colonize the land that would become the United States came over in 1607, and they brought the English language (and accent) with...
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Where Did These 10 Weird Idioms Come From?
Written by Austin Jesse Mitchell Many idioms in English are so familiar to native speakers that we don’t stop to think about how strange they are. Why do we say “fly...