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Americans are chuffed as chips at British English
British intellectuals enjoy bewailing the influx of Americanisms into the language of the mother country. The BBC once asked ...
British-born Greece defender George Baldock dies aged 31
The body of British-born Panathinaikos and Greece defender George Baldock was found on Wednesday in a swimming pool at his ...
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British cardinal says a legalized ‘right to die’ becomes a ‘duty to die’
If assisted suicide is legalized in Britain, “a key protection of human life falls away,” according to Cardinal Vincent ...
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The humble picture postcard acted as a powerful colonial propaganda tool for the British
Collector Ratnesh Mathur has put up 9,000 postcards at DAG in Delhi that showed how the humble pictures became foot soldiers ...
British-born Greek footballer Baldock found dead in swimming pool
The body of British-born Panathinaikos and Greece defender George Baldock was found on Wednesday in a swimming pool at his home in the southern Athens suburb of Glyfada, police sources said. The cause ...
English backpacker shocked to find Aussies don't like being called 'champ'
An English backpacker has found himself befuddled by various aspects of Aussie culture after moving Down Under, from our ...
Meet the next generation of British writers – who have no truck with identity politics
When Elena Barham was seven years old she showed a teacher at her Barnsley primary school a story she’d written. “She told me ...
Rugby’s future is at stake – the game needs action, not empty words like James Haskell’s
Last Friday, a crowd of nearly 18,000 watched a thrilling, 11-try match between Bristol and Gloucester, that the visitors won ...
Are Americans sounding a tad British to you? You’re spot on.
In a new book, “Gobsmacked!,” writer and language commentator Ben Yagoda delves into the way Americans have adopted so many ...
Attracted to the world of words, like bees to honey
Shashi Tharoor's love for words shines in his book "A Wonderland of Words," exploring English's quirks, from Indianisms to ...
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British-born Panathinaikos defender Baldock found dead at Greek home
Panathinaikos defender George Baldock, a former Greece international who also played for Sheffield United for seven seasons, ...