What the British get right, and we don’t, about remote work
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his government are promoting flexible work arrangements and rejecting the outdated ...
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Welsh words twp and sglods in English dictionary
You can now raise a glass to 10 new Welsh words in the Oxford English Dictionary - including the phrase for cheers. Iechyd da, which means good health and is said before having a drink ...
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Russia expels 6 British diplomats it accuses of spying, UK calls decision ‘completely baseless’
Russia on Friday accused six British diplomats of spying and said it decided to expel them. The U.K. said the “completely baseless” move came weeks ago and was linked to its action in May to ...
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Russia revokes accreditation of six British diplomats over spying claims
Russia has revoked the accreditation of six British diplomats in Moscow accusing them of espionage and sabotage. In its announcement on Friday, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB ...
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British Sikhs warn against new definition of Islamophobia
British Sikhs are challenging a new Islamophobia definition that they argue misrepresents history and curtails free speech. The Network of Sikh Organisations contends it hinders discussions about ...
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'The ick' and 'boop' newest entries in dictionary
Some of the new phrases have been popularised by reality show Love Island "The ick" and "boop" are among more than 3,200 new words and phrases added to the Cambridge Dictionary this year.
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The Cambridge History of English Poetry
Boyd, Matthieu 2013. The Languages of British Literature and the Stakes of Anthologies. Pedagogy, Vol. 13, Issue. 2, p. 303. Jimenez-Munoz, Antonio 2018. Unworked and unavowable: Communities of ...
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University gets £5m to fund heart disease research
Cambridge University has been given £5m by the British Heart Foundation to help fund cardiovascular disease research A charity has given Cambridge University £5m to help fund cardiovascular ...
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The dictionaries have a word for it
In another link with AI the Cambridge Dictionary chose "hallucinate" as its word of the ... Bringing home the bacon Last week's column concerning the adventures of two English pigs called Butch and ...
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The People Who Created Our Dictionary Have Been Largely Forgotten—Until Now
I used to work upstairs as an editor on the Oxford English Dictionary (OED ... enabled this system of reading for the Dictionary to be so successful. The growth of the British Empire, the ...
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The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries
101, Issue. 1, p. 1. Considine, John 2024. Fourteen centuries of English lexicography - Heming Yong and Jing Peng, A Sociolinguistic History of British English Lexicography Abingdon and New York: ...