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August 2024

  • Woman shying away from being photograph, Milan, Italy<br>woman hand up

    ‘Very demure, very mindful’: why everyone’s jumping on the modesty bandwagon

  • Electricity pylons near Edinburgh

    Brief letters
    Power lines’ curves and accidental verse

  • Kamala Harris and Tim Walz campaign rally in Las Vegas, Nevada

    Harris’ or Harris’s? Apostrophe row divides grammar nerds

  • Rod Dimbleby talking at a Yorkshire Dialect Society event

    ‘Yorkshire apostrophe’ row raises bigger question: do we even need them?

July 2024

  • man wearing "budgie smugglers" is seen laying on the sand at Bronte Beach in Sydney, Australia

    Brief letters
    The glorious range of Australian slang

  • A woman sitting on a bench among trees in autumn

    What is ‘nature’? Dictionaries urged to include humans in definition

  • VP Harris Makes Appearance At Sorority Grand Boule In Indianapolis<br>INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA - JULY 24: Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Grand Boule at the Indiana Convention Center on July 24, 2024 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Yesterday Harris spoke to potential voters during a stop in Wisconsin and tomorrow is scheduled to attend an event in Texas. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

    ‘So uniquely her’: where did Kamala Harris’s self-help speaking style come from?

  • Rebecca Rideal

    A New York accent in ancient Rome? So what, it’s no less accurate than RP

    Rebecca Rideal

  • AI prompts can boost writers’ creativity but result in similar stories, study finds

  • Babbling scouse youngster shows babies can have accents, say scientists

June 2024

  • Man standing on stage.

    ‘Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungs-aufgabenübertragungsgesetz’: how viral tongue-twisters lightened up German language

  • Speaker at Business Conference

    Brief letters
    Starmer comparison does a disservice to speed awareness trainers

  • Port Lockroy with mountains and glacier behind, Antarctica

    Fidlets, fingies and riding a doo: study sheds light on Antarctic English slang

  • Gwenno sings on stage.

    Cornish language revives on back of psych-pop and Covid

  • Notes and queries
    Readers reply: what are the best examples of genuine irony?

  • Brief letters
    We’re already paying tax on our state pensions

  • Artist hopes to reintroduce cockney rhyming slang to young Londoners

  • Notes and queries
    Readers reply: which language is the most beautiful?

  • Notes and queries
    Which language is the most beautiful?

May 2024

  • Smiling baby aged six to nine months.

    Babbling babies may be warming up for speech, say scientists

    Squeals and growls tend to occur in groups, finds study of infants aged up to 13 months
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