Thus spoke Shakespeare! Or did he?

Mar 25, 2011 by

It seems to be a tradition with Shakespearean theater everywhere — even in the U.S. — to think that the bard himself spoke “BBC English” (also known as Queen’s English, King’s English, Oxford...

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English is changing: for better or for worse?

Aug 18, 2010 by

Two things are certain — and I am not talking of death and taxes. In language the two certainties are that language is constantly changing and… that we keep complaining about it. And English is no exception to this rule....

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