| 单词 | English language |
| 例句 | The English language has a long and storied history. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z They interpreted my love for the English language, for poetry, for tennis, as a sign that I was trying to be white. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z MOP: Every time you say bro, the English language loses its will to live. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But out there on the page, the connections have to be signaled by the lexical and syntactic resources of the English language. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He evaluated the English language skills of all of the airline’s flight crews. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Nothing could capture your personality. The English language is too limited.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The English language first picked up the apo-strophe in the 16th century. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z He was a soft-spoken, politically sensitive, brilliant Zulu student, whose love for the English language probably equalled my own. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The child of a barely known glove maker from the Midlands—“born of parents not distinguished from their neighbors”—could grow up to be the most prominent writer of the English language. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But I couldn’t believe that the English language was mine to use. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you having trouble with the English language?” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Then, his voice changing, he said, “I asked you where he was, Sergeant, I didn’t ask for you to practice your mastery of the English language.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Together with verbal coffins like model and level in which writers entomb their actors and actions, the English language provides them with a dangerous weapon called nominalization: making something into a noun. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z They spoke for a few minutes, but even assuming they had chosen the English language, there was no chance of their being overheard. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “You don’t need to repeat everything I say. I presume you know the English language well enough or I wouldn’t ask you to read Shakespeare.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z ‘Engine’ and ‘machine’ still have overlapping meanings as a consequence of Descartes’ influence on the English language. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “I must compliment you, young man, on your grasp of the English language.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z At the same time I was discovering the richness of the English language I began imitating how white people talked, in the hope of learning proper pronunciation. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Has it ever occurred to you,” he said, “that the whole history of English poetry has been determined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z All the negative words that ever existed in the English language. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Here, too, the English language gives us the means to mention the events in either order while holding the meaning constant. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z For several hundred years commentators on the English language have been predicting, lamenting, or celebrating the imminent extinction of the subjunctive mood. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z No native speaker of the English language could diagram this sentence. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Perhaps it stood for “E,” the most frequent letter in the English language. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Now that Salva was learning more than a few simple words, he found the English language quite confusing. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I took the SATs and English language examination. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z If we knew nothing else about language distributions and history, we might have guessed that the English language arose in North America and was carried overseas to Britain and Australia by colonists. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Dandridge, the personnel officer, was highly impressed with my credentials, especially my command of the English language. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Vocabulary is the key to success. How one speaks and presents one’s grasp of the English language is vitally important,” Mother said over and over again. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Francis Bacon invented the fact; from Bacon the fact entered the English language and was adopted by the Royal Society. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z These writers are incurious about the logic and history of the English language and the ways in which it has been used by its exemplary stylists. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Both had been trained by him in the English language and evidently a good deal else, for Brother Fowles left some mystery in his wake. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The husband was a small, timid man, sick with pneumonia caused by an unidentified microbe, and with only limited command of the English language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I was always eager and excited to read for them, because it made me feel that I was really good at speaking the English language. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “All right. Let’s forget the English language lessons. We are going to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z In this way, my pronunciation and ear for the English language improved. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z To make this type of linguistic reasoning clear, let me give you a familiar example: the geographic origins of the English language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to write and I did not even know the English language. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Necessity is the mother of invention, and over the centuries the English language has developed workarounds for its rigid syntax. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Among dances, swimming, and tennis she soon found herself getting involved in the English language. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Elizebeth and William knew enough about cryptography to guess that “V” might stand for “E,” the most common letter in the English language. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Left to the berks, the English language would “die of impurity, like late Latin”. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Was there no other sentence in the English language? Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Nothing like it exists in the English language. It’s Portuguese. Saudade. Do you know that one?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The dictionary contained every word in the English language but the chain knew only a few. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A degree in English language is not a prerequisite for caring about where a bracket is preferred to a dash, or a comma needs to be replaced by a semicolon. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z “Those two words, God and Good, are only one letter apart in the English language,” she said. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Hence a linguist would immediately deduce correctly that the English language arose in coastal northwestern Europe and spread around the world from there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And the English language dwindled to a single word, repeated over and over: “Congratulations!” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Candidate instructors, it stipulated, were to have a fluent knowledge of both the French and English languages, and only those of temperate habits and unquestionable character need apply. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z You must go forth with your A level and protect the English language with your bow of elfin gold. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z He turns toward me; the English language and I reappear in the conversation. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z There was a simple reason for my having taken to perusing such works; it was an extremely efficient way to maintain and develop one's command of the English language. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes she talked on the phone to friends from the English language school. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet another lure into a garden path comes from the statistical patterns of the English language, in which certain words are likely to precede or follow others. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The ultimate success of esperimento reflects, just like the phrase philosophie experimental in French, the influence of the English language and of English science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The passive voice is just one of the gadgets that the English language makes available to rearrange phrases while preserving their semantic roles. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Here again the English language is mathematically elegant and provides the writer with a neat group of symmetries. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Clear thinking requires a command of the English language, and fifth grade is the ideal time for every girl and boy to acquire an expanded vocabulary. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Lori heard about a scholarship sponsored by a literary society for the student who created the best work of art inspired by one of the geniuses of the English language. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z A friend once noted that "sausage" is the only word in the English language written as Grossman speaks. Andrew Anthony 2010-05-15T23:05:00Z “I get to marry not one, not two, but three of the most beautiful words in the English language: Erika Bethea Woods,” the groom said in part. ‘Perfect Strangers’ Drawn to Each Other’s Worlds 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z "You did literally lift the roof off this building," says Amanda, confusing the poor girl further, this time with the English language. Britain's Got Talent – TV Review 2013-04-15T06:00:26Z And the glorious way he used the English language to conjure up extraordinary images is something that inspires me to this day. My hero: Christopher Marlowe 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z There's one of the most famous novels in the English language. "A similar genesis": The Cure's Lol Tolhurst honors goth and its (spider)web of artistic connections 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z The innovative prose of what was eventually recognized as the greatest English language novel of the 20th century immediately impressed Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, editors of an American journal called the Little Review. Perspective | Trump can’t ban ‘Fire and Fury.’ Thank James Joyce’s 100-year-old ‘Ulysses’ for that. 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Each year Oxford University Press tracks how the English language is changing and chooses a word that best reflects the mood of the year. Oxford chooses 'omnishambles' as word of the year 2012-11-13T00:08:07Z It is the sixth biggest selling book in the English language and remains one of the best animal books of all time. Lauren St John's top 10 animal adventures 2011-07-21T09:20:04Z According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it’s one of the first written accounts of the noun cluster “chicken breasts” in the English language. Three Ways to a Better Chicken Breast 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Circles are widened, if only a bit, as Stanley and Tara clash and bond over subjects like his computer illiteracy, her love of junk food and their respective uses and abuses of the English language. Theater Review: ‘Adult’ by Christina Masciotti, at Abrons Arts Center 2014-02-03T22:00:42Z “La Mascotte,” an 1870 French opera about a woman who brings a poor farmer good luck, made the word popular in the English language. They’ve got spirit, yes they do. Mascots have a long history of rallying fans. 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z The myth that Shakespeare coined loads of words has partly fueled the myth that Shakespeare's language constitutes one-quarter, a half or even all of the words of today's English language. Five myths about Shakespeare’s contribution to the English language 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z With the reservations of a man about to enter a particularly well-packed minefield, Alex Brown, head of digital at Collins, said the company was acknowledging the passion that the English language inspired. War of wordcraft: invitation to write dictionary puts language nerds on alert 2012-07-18T11:08:04Z This short, shocking scene was an important landmark in rabbit cinema, since it was a performance that helped to contribute a whole new phrase to the English language. Clip joint: Rabbits 2012-12-12T17:22:24Z Playwright William Shakespeare added more than 1,700 words and phrases to the English language. How did you do in the Shakespeare game? 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Of all the words in the English language, “OK” is pretty new: It’s been used only for about 180 years. Language evolves, and that’s okay (O.K.?) 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z "It flows so well in the English language because that's the original language," she says. 'This is the top' _ Dutch singer on Broadway debut 2013-03-04T12:46:09Z I've always known that the English language is a hot-button issue, and two recent posts here and only confirm that. Globish and its discontents 2010-04-12T11:56:00Z English language teacher, who was also deputy director of a language school, the Swedish Institute. American teacher killed in Yemen 2012-03-18T15:16:00Z “Children of tomorrow will have no understanding of the English language,” exactly. Hands Off My Smiley Face: Emoji Become Corporate Tools 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z From early in his career, Chappelle said, “I learned that there are two words in the English language that you should never say together in sequence. And those words are ‘the’ and ‘Jews.’ On ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Dave Chappelle Mocks Kanye and Kyrie 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z The English language has no end of words to describe women who don’t behave the way they are supposed to. Eccentric women: why they are more important than ever in our oppressive era 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Chandler's insistence on rendering toska as was a noble if quixotic effort to enrich the English language. Say 'non' to phrasebook foreign language in fiction 2011-07-13T16:46:52Z Yet the near absence of any human being in these books goes with an extraordinary individuality of vision, producing some of the most arresting and beautiful prose in the English language. Summer reading: 'coalition books' 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z The bride’s mother is a French and English language tutor for elementary students in Ottawa. Nadia Mostafa Kamal, John Weinstein 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z That means the situation must really be serious, because, as Oliver noted, “‘This is math’ is one of the most dread-inducing sentences in the English language.” Lin-Manuel Miranda Sings For Puerto Rico on 'Last Week Tonight' 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z In his explanations, Mr. Munroe avoided technical jargon and limited himself to the 1,000 most commonly used words in the English language. Randall Munroe Explains It All for Us 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Watching him struggle with the English language has made George W. look like Einstein.” David Hare’s political stages 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z For months a veritable league of national types, united by desperation and the English language, push through the cold and the heat, slipping through forests and across mountains and deserts. | 'The Way Back': Pushing the Limits of Endurance 2011-01-20T23:13:53Z The Danes have a word with no direct translation in the English language—Hygge. How to Parent Like They Do in Denmark 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z "Globish will limit the influence of the English language dramatically", he told me. Globish: the worldwide dialect of the third millennium | Robert McCrum 2010-03-29T12:51:00Z I no longer think that the word I most dread in the English language is “maintenance.” Calvin Trillin on the Scariest Word 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z “Cherokee Voices, Cherokee Sounds” is an hour-long program in both the Cherokee and English languages and includes Cherokee music, interviews with elder speakers and information about tribal community news. Cherokee language radio show marks decade in Okla. 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z In 1986, Ronald Reagan delivered one of the most defining lines of his presidency: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” ‘City Hall’ Review: Frederick Wiseman, for the People 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Watching Belasco's short play in London in 1900, Puccini reportedly was deeply moved — despite his tenuous grasp of the English language. Opera preview: 'Madama Butterfly' at Seattle Opera 2012-04-25T20:40:08Z They might not be the greatest English language writers of all time, but along with Faulkner, I think they were the best of their time. John McCain: By the Book 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z There was the disappointing creature feature Mimic, his studio-tampered English language debut, noisy but empty actioner Pacific Rim, the gothic nothingness of Crimson Peak and his silly small screen horror series The Strain. The 50 top films of 2017 in the US: No 7 The Shape of Water 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z This will include playing popular classical and instrumental music, as well as a number of English language and international artists. BBC Radio Wales cuts hours and introduces English songs in music row 2012-12-31T13:15:29Z He can believe that the n-word can be treated as an intellectual conversation piece rather than as the single most fraught and painful word in the English language. Perspective | Joe Rogan is too powerful to keep acting as if he’s just a regular guy chopping it up 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z The Atlantic called it “an erudite and loving and occasionally profane history of the English language” that’s also “a cheerful and thoughtful rebuke of the cult of the grammar scolds.” A Journey Into the Merriam-Webster Word Factory 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Sorry bae, this might sound cra-cra but the takeaway from Lake Superior State University's list of a dozen words to ban from the English language is that some want that term of endearment outlawed. Bye, bye 'bae': term of endearment is on list of words to ban 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Whether this will give it a poultry leg up on the competition remains to be seen, but at least it boasts a name that is already part of the English language. What the hell is Peacock? Here's a guide to the "free as a bird" streaming service 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z She understood the theatrics of the chamber as well as anyone, but even she urged MPs to "make use of the richness of the English language by selecting elegant phrases" when tearing one another apart. Is it unparliamentary to call someone a 'muttering idiot'? 2012-05-26T17:19:01Z He thinks his critics are still incapable of recognising merit in any form of the English language that departs from the one favoured by educated elites in England. James Kelman 2012-07-29T19:00:01Z "He's a great poet in the great English language tradition stretching from William Blake onwards." Times a-changin': Nobel jury says lyrics can be literature 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z What she once thought of as an immutable soul, "whose thoughts were in no particular dialect", is being ineluctably reshaped by her environment, her husband and the English language. The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger – review 2012-08-09T07:00:02Z Traditionalists lament the decline of the English language, but historical quotations in the Oxford English Dictionary show that many infamous terms of today are older than expected. O.E.D.’s New Chief Editor Speaks of Its Future 2014-01-21T21:45:05Z There is only one other volume in the English language that has been as powerful and influential — the King James Bible — and it will be the subject of another Folger exhibition in September. Exhibition Review: Shakespeare Folios as Venerated Relics 2011-07-07T12:01:10Z Was it not possible that, with the turn of the century, English language and culture were becoming decoupled from their contentious heritage, disassociated from post-colonial trauma? Globish: the worldwide dialect of the third millennium | Robert McCrum 2010-03-29T12:51:00Z The book’s eight essays take up two poems each, many among the best known in the English language. Poetry’s Hanging Judge Tries On a Detective Hat 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z According to Merriam-Webster, it’s silly to rely on any single dictionary to contain every word in the English language, even though dictionaries "tend to be rather large books." National Dictionary Day: Surprising facts about the resource book 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z I don’t say this because I’m British, too; but these three, with long records of singing the English language, did so with flair. Dance This Week: ‘Ballerina Swan,’ ‘Die Fledermaus’ and the Choreography of Merce Cunningham 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z “I’m doing some research about English language teaching in China,” I said, and when this lie was accepted, added, “Would it be possible to speak to some of the teachers?” Teaching the People’s Republic 2012-09-03T13:00:00Z The English language service will have a new schedule focusing on news output, with four daily programmes including BBC World Today and BBC World Have Your Say and a new morning show for Africa. BBC World Service forecast to lose 30m listeners as cuts announced 2011-01-26T20:20:12Z It was a good day for films not in the English language. ‘Dune’ director out, KStew in and more Oscars surprises 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z "First of all, his difficulty in speaking the English language is fantastic . . . And the accent," Stern said. Howard Stern accuses Johnny Depp of being a “narcissist” and “overacting” during testimony 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z Backstage, she apologized to anyone offended with the word she said was inappropriate for the occasion, adding, "There is a great deal of the English language that is in my vernacular." Melissa Leo wins supporting actress Oscar award 2011-02-28T03:14:08Z But despite those precarious turns, Swift became a poet, a priest, a political operator and, of course, the greatest satirist in the English language. Perspective | Ghosthunters, grabbers and grifters: What would Jonathan Swift say of our times? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Details were announced today of the library's new exhibition devoted to the English language, exploring its 1,500-year history from Anglo-Saxon runes and early dictionaries to not dropping your Hs and rap. 'I wrote 2U B4'! British Library shows up textspeak as soooo 19th century 2010-08-18T18:31:00Z List of Reviled Words Tries to Fight ‘Fiscal Cliff’ A group of language scolds has released its annual list of words and phrases to be exorcised from the English language, and ... ArtsBeat: Spoiler Alert! List of Reviled Words Tries to Fight 'Fiscal Cliff' 2012-12-31T18:18:06Z Last year, Pantheon published Laila Lalami’s novel “The Other Americans,” a National Book Award finalist for fiction, and the English language edition of Yoko Ozawa’s novel “The Memory Police,” a finalist for best translation. Lisa Lucas, head of National Book Foundation, to join Knopf 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z The film went on win a Bafta for best film not in the English language. Almodovar to receive film honour 2013-09-16T15:54:13Z For nearly three decades after, Mr. Amis’s books were not reviewed in the NYRB, one of the chief intellectual organs in the English language. Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z His reputation preceded him: "The four most dreaded words in the English language: Mike Wallace is here," as the saying goes. AP Photos: A half century of Mike Wallace's career 2012-04-08T19:46:11Z Falls says that he gets why “Lear” is done so often: he considers it “the greatest play in the English language.” Here a ‘Lear,’ There a ‘Lear’ The museum’s educators provide lessons in art and art history as well as English language arts, social studies and even science and math. With interactive conferences, Smithsonian museum shares its collection with military-connected students around the world 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z But my patience invariably dissolves when someone assembles an English language remake of an English language original. The Death at a Funeral remake should have died an early death 2010-04-16T11:16:00Z Chief among its merits is Mark Rylance’s instantly winning gentle giant, who beautifully butchers the English language while protecting the story’s pint-sized protagonist and bringing Dahl’s whimsical ideas to life. The 12 Best Summer Movies You Might Have Missed 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z The advantages were that the texts are among the most beautiful ever crafted in the English language.” In Seattle: ‘Beowulf’ sung the way Anglo-Saxons might have heard it 2013-04-04T22:39:58Z Or, indeed, whether those words are really part of the English language or not. I’ll never be a grandmother 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z That may be a boon for foreign-language Oscar contenders hoping to emulate the success of Bong Joon Ho’s South Korean sensation “Parasite,” the first film not in the English language to win best picture. After #OscarsSoWhite, the Academy Meets Goal to Diversify Membership 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z The political writer who, more than any other in the English language, sought to model himself on George Orwell, has finally been recognised with an Orwell prize. The Orwell prize gets Hitched 2012-05-28T09:34:25Z Gamecock is the only surviving English language cockfighting glossy. Baby chimpanzee killed by adult at L. A. Zoo 2012-06-27T13:33:00Z “These crackdowns have been promised before and nothing came from them, so people are sceptical,” said Jason Moore, editor of English language newspaper the Majorca Daily Bulletin. Magaluf crackdown: Spanish authorities call time on drinking in the street 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z The staff of “The Daily Show” published “The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library” by curating the president’s tweeted attacks on his enemies and the English language. Perspective | Liberal satire is getting dangerously lazy in the Trump era 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z In this year's poll, voters get one chance to vote for any original, English language play from any period of time. Hunt on for nation's favourite play 2013-09-16T07:43:45Z “Humans need to stop adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere,” he writes, which is as useful a sentence as the English language admits. How Does Bill Gates Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis? 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Her double-entendre malapropisms — “don’t misconscrewme” — suggested a sophisticated command of the English language, and as she worked to build her own career, she resisted assimilating to American expectations. The Brilliance of Charo 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z She had a string of top grade GCSEs from Howell's School in Cardiff - including an A* in music, French and history, and As in geography, maths, English literature and English language. Church to study for physics degree 2014-03-12T14:40:46Z It is, it seems, the inexhaustible appetite to understand the plays by a man Eustis calls “the greatest writer in the English language” that these theaters are stretching to sate. Perspective | The dilemma for Shakespeare theaters: Increasing audiences without selling their souls 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z The Common Core is a set of standards for students in kindergarten through 12th grade in English language arts and mathematics. Motherlode Blog: A Lesson on the Common Core 2014-02-27T15:23:13Z Regarded as one of the most important printed works in the English language, fewer than 250 copies of the collection survive. Antiques dealer jailed for handling stolen Shakespeare First Folio 2010-08-02T12:06:00Z “Lonely” is one of several dozen words Sidney introduced into the English language that Shakespeare later used. Mary Sidney, Shakespeare and the Authorship Question 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Under the new schedule, daily output on Radio Cymru will be reduced by two hours and a number of English language and international artists will be broadcast. Radio Cymru forced to play English songs amid royalty dispute 2013-01-01T13:33:10Z That term, like hundreds of others going live on Monday, has been weighed, measured and determined to be a notable event in the history of the English language, silly as it may sound. Oxford Dictionary Adds 'Gender-Fluid,' ''Merica' and 'Squee' 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z In these efforts, the best selection is decided by how often certain letters appear in the English language, or the frequency of where these letters are located in five-letter words. Want to master Wordle? Here’s the best strategy for your first guess 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Our research clearly shows that these – and the English language – are vital in attracting talent, trade and tourism. Letters: Student visas are an open door to talent 2013-03-05T21:00:01Z A Greek director based in London, his first English language film The Lobster got enthusiastic reviews at Cannes this year. Emma Stone, Kate Winslet and Olivia Colman set to star in The Favourite 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z But even this is only the tip of an artistic iceberg because the bounds of expression in Pakistan are, naturally, not limited to the English language or the written word. Pakistan's fertile artistic ground 2010-10-10T13:00:00Z Imagine if 250 words were being added to the English language this summer, and many were likely to immediately become among the most commonly used words in the world! Summer Is Flying By. Plan Accordingly. 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Some of the highest grossing English language movies last year were "No Time to Die," with a total gross of $774 million, and F9: The Fast Saga, with $726 million in ticket sales. The 25 highest grossing movies of 2021 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z Unprecedented times beget unprecedented updates to the English language. Oxford dictionary skips 'Word of the Year' for 2020, says 'unprecedented' year required dozens instead 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z And, when I once rashly suggested that Shaw was second only to Shakespeare as an English language dramatist, I unleashed a debate in the correspondence columns that went on for weeks. Theatre critics still pack a punch 2010-05-07T11:44:00Z It’s been a couple of months since our last neologism contest, causing the English language to languish desperately until we saw fit to inject a couple of dozen new words into it. Style Invitational: Celebrate ortho-diversity! A neologism contest 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Under the heading “Legends of St. Nicholas” came polyphonic selections dedicated to that saint, including one of the oldest songs in the English language. Music Review: Noel in the Museum, Medieval Edition 2010-12-16T05:00:06Z Adams wrote his score with adoration for and absolute control of the English language, and with the unshowy confidence to take on Shakespeare, whose poetry teems with musicality. Best Classical Music Performances of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z His 2007 creation, "The Last Lear," in the English language, centered on a retired actor who is persuaded to return to cinema to reprise the lead role in a production of Shakespeare's "King Lear." Award-winning Indian director Ghosh dies at 49 2013-05-30T07:08:17Z Koestler's greatest achievement was total assimilation into the English language. Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual by Michael Scammell 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z APAP: for many a New York choreographer, there’s no more frightening sequence of letters in the English language. Straddling Worlds of Performance 2010-12-31T15:49:56Z A newly uncovered novel by the late Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño will get its first English language publication this year in the literary quarterly the Paris Review. Lost Roberto Bola?o novel to be serialised this spring 2011-02-14T13:07:58Z Each year," the site tells us, in tones more usually employed on advertisements exhorting us not to buy puppies for Christmas, "hundreds of words are dropped from the English language. Wanted: loving homes for endangered words 2011-08-10T12:56:37Z In 2001, she sold more than 13 million copies worldwide of her first English language album "Laundry Service," which contained the hit single "Whenever, Whereever." Shakira enshrined with Hollywood sidewalk star 2011-11-09T03:16:04Z Hollywood, however, is betting that an English language remake of the international best-sellers, will reap benefits. Fresh face Rooney Mara lands lead in "Dragon Tattoo" 2010-08-16T18:44:00Z Sometimes the emotional state you can get yourself into is a lot more overpowering than the use of the English language. Hüsker Dü: "Hardcore is bands with three initials" – a classic interview 2013-05-15T13:53:36Z There are 281 youngsters competing for the title of top speller in the English language. 'Glasnost' opens onstage rounds at Spelling Bee 2013-05-29T12:51:51Z For a certain kind of reader, of a certain kind of age, the words "Kaye" and "Webb" are among the most delightful and evocative in the English language. So Much to Tell by Valerie Grove 2010-05-15T23:08:00Z The two most comforting words in the English language are, “Me too.” “I Am That Girl’s” new generation of girl power 2014-03-14T12:30:00Z Besides, this kind of mindless stuff is such a waste of the English language, and of the elegance, imagination, wit and erudition that can be brought to bear on a really cracking parliamentary insult. Is it unparliamentary to call someone a 'muttering idiot'? 2012-05-26T17:19:01Z In some circles, the six saddest words in the English language may be: “Don’t you know who I am?” 6 Songs Offer Preview of ‘Rebel Heart’ Album 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The OED, often considered the bible of the English language, got its start in the mid-1800s. Sarah Ogilvie on Deletions From the Oxford English Dictionary 2012-11-28T23:40:36Z Scull is a very old word in the English language—the Oxford English Dictionary attests it as early as 1345—but its origin is obscure. The etymology of 15 weird and wonderful Olympic words 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z He insisted it was "not about accents" but instead, "It is about the fact that she is wrong. You do not pronounce the English language ending in a 'g' without the 'g'." Posh Spice sounds posher, but changing a working-class accent isn’t a ticket out of discrimination 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z Can Snowpiercer be the first English language film to really show off what the best South Korean directors are capable of? Snowpiercer trailer: off the rails with Bong Joon-ho 2013-07-09T12:30:23Z The first recipe for ketchup in the English language was documented in a cookbook published in London in 1727. ’Chups: Fruit ketchups stirred up by a couple with a passion for condiments The world of copyright in the English language was divided just two ways, both speaking the same tongue. The third age of Grub Street – and a new era for books 2013-03-04T15:43:30Z In the English language version of the trailer, direct references to Muhammad appear to be the result of post-production changes to the movie. California man confirms role in anti-Islam film 2012-09-13T11:53:09Z My medium is the English language, maybe the most violent colonial weapon ever invented. Throwing Weight Into Sound: Kaveh Akbar on Poetry and Power 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z For while we in English language audiences know Lambert almost entirely as a bargain-bin action name, he more or less deserted that market around five years ago. How Christophe Lambert went from action flops to arthouse acclaim 2010-06-17T21:30:00Z Nominees for the award for film not in the English language are "Ida," "Leviathan," "The Lunchbox," "Trash" and "Two Days, One Night." BAFTA nominations: 'Grand Budapest Hotel' leads with 11; 'Selma' snubbed 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z One is therefore very surprised to find this old stickler for the English language using spellings that many consider vulgarly American: "realized" for "realised", "organize" for "organise", "privatization" for "privatisation". Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography, Volume One: Not for Turning by Charles Moore – review 2013-04-27T13:00:11Z "Frangipane: I am in love with the English language." Sharon Olds: Confessions of a divorce 2013-01-26T07:29:01Z During this routine, filmed at Town Hall in Manhattan, Mr. Elmaleh discusses his move from Paris to New York, pokes fun at the English language and playfully mocks American dating conventions. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Mister Rogers: It’s You I Like’ and ‘Gad Elmaleh: American Dream’ 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z The roots of this vexing dilemma, and many others, are on display at London’s British Library, along with ancient manuscripts and modern recording devices all documenting the evolution of the English language. In Transit: Exploring English at the British Library 2011-03-22T10:00:50Z No other word in the English language would work better there. Lee Child Reviews a Debut Novel That’s Vintage Texas Noir 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z “They did not require much knowledge of the English language,” she said of laundries. Betty Lee Sung, Scholar of Chinese in America, Dies at 98 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z The English language adds more physical weight and hard sound, with the audibility of the relative pronoun, "that", and the predominance of masculine line-endings contributory factors. Poem of the week: 'Time has disappeared/Lo temps s'es perdut' by Aurélia Lassaque 2013-02-11T11:28:12Z In fact, the analysts at Oxford University Press estimated that as of March, “coronavirus” was one of the most “frequently used” nouns in all of the English language. Oxford dictionary skips 'Word of the Year' for 2020, says 'unprecedented' year required dozens instead 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z The first, to premiere in January, is a mostly French language hour entitled Gad Gone Wild, while an English language set will be released later in the year. Comedy in 2017: Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle and the French Seinfeld 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z But he doesn’t speak Amharic, which presented problems in collaborating with Shenegelgn, who has not mastered the English language. Ethiopian cuisine is unlike any other. Why are some chefs trying to modernize it? 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z His mother, an English language tutor, would not give him colouring books in case they restricted his imagination. David Lynch: ‘You gotta be selfish. It's a terrible thing’ 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z What I cherish most about Toni Morrison’s work is the way that she used the English language: to its fullest, across its entire range, from the poetic to the profane. Toni Morrison, Remembered By Writers 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Yorgos Lanthimos’s English language debut is just that, taking place in a dystopian society where single people must find a mate within 45 days or be transformed into an animal of their choice. And the Oscar might go to: the sure bets and underdogs critics have already seen 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z But otherwise the singing is limited to the Father and Daughter’s scenes together; van der Aa’s musical writing for their exchanges follows the natural rhythms of the English language. Review: In ‘Upload,’ Do Blockchains Dream of Electric Lizards? 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Pulsifer said Arcadia would be cutting back on the number of translations it publishes – having already seen cutbacks because overseas national literary organisations have reduced their support for English language translations of their books. Arts Council cuts threaten independent publishers 2010-10-21T13:50:00Z In 1999, Ms. Lee released her first full English language album, “Just No Other Way,” which featured pop and R&B songs. Coco Lee, ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ and ‘Mulan’ Singer, Dies at 48 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z In other words, its reach: it is global, treating the English language, for the first time, as a creative lingua franca as well as a commercial one. The Booker prize and the battle for supremacy in a literary awards jungle 2013-03-12T10:48:31Z “Vocabulism” is a Salon series about how the Internet is killing the English language, one word at a time. RIP “clickbait”: The REAL reason to stop talking about this word 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z In 2016, reporter Jennifer Lin asserted that he used "the worst word in the English language to refer to a woman" to chew her out several years earlier. Let’s not normalize the c-word: Why the “worst word” you can call a woman matters 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z It earned Ms. Haley the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, an international award given annually to a female playwright with an outstanding body of work in the English language. ArtsBeat: MCC Season Will Feature LaBute World Premiere 2014-04-22T17:47:41Z Beach owned an English language bookstore and lending library called Shakespeare and Company, which opened in 1919 at 12, rue de l’Odéon. Bloomsday Is Ending but Joyce Left Plenty of Trail to Trace 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z It's no accident that the most immortal passage by the greatest writer in the English language begins with the question, "To be, or not to be." 'The Inevitable': 20 writers confront mortality 2011-02-16T23:25:04Z The Internet was still new at the time, and many Japanese fans wrote on anonymous English language list serves that this was their first opportunity to express emotion not easily done in traditional Japanese culture. 20 years after his death, Toru Takemitsu still sending signals in his music 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z The Man Booker International Prize is awarded every two years to a living author who has published fiction either originally in English or whose work is generally available in translation in the English language. Banned China, Russia writers on Man Booker International list 2013-01-24T14:33:54Z The story, set in the 1960s, follows the lives of seven teachers in an English language school for foreigners. Atkinson to star in West End play 2012-06-08T10:43:56Z In Latin, a root of the English language, the color black is "niger." High school play seizes power from the N-word 2011-04-30T16:16:06Z One of France’s most prolific actors, Depardieu, 70, has starred in some 170 movies throughout his career and gained international recognition in 1990 with his starring role in the English language comedy “Green Card”. French prosecutors drop rape investigation against actor Depardieu 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z “If the phrase ‘greatest living poet in the English language’ has any meaning,” the literary critic Nicholas Lezard wrote in The Guardian of London, “we should use it now.” Geoffrey Hill, Dense and Allusive British Poet, Is Dead at 84 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Both volumes transformed the English language, but also shaped ideas about human nature, freedom and responsibility. Exhibition Review: ?Manifold Greatness? and King James Bible at Folger - Review 2011-09-29T22:15:20Z I make my living in the English language. ‘Writing a Trauma Play Makes Me Want to Dry Heave’ 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z The prize is given to an author of a novel, play, poetry or travel book in the English language who is under 30. Dylan prize hopefuls announced 2012-07-30T12:15:22Z Pevear once said that his ambition as a translator is to energize the English language. A ‘Full Deck’ of Chekhov, With the Translators as the Wild Cards 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Common Core is a controversial set of nationwide English language arts and math benchmarks, and according to Slate there are difficult test to go with them. Louis C.K. slams Common Core again: “Kids, teachers, parents are vocally suffering” 2014-05-01T22:56:00Z I found myself flinching as I read, not from the perils the characters face, but from the mauling the English language receives. A Mother and Son, Fleeing for Their Lives Over Treacherous Terrain 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z With that in mind, and again, there’s this other issue of how do we understand the use of various words in the English language. What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z The old joke still holds: What are the two saddest words in the English language? Dress Codes: Appropriately Inappropriate for ‘Festive Dress’ 2013-12-04T23:20:13Z Experts say it is sung more than any other song in the English language, and maybe more than any other song in the world. Kids helped create birthday song 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z The sad death of Robert Hughes last year robbed art criticism in the English language of a courageous voice. Art criticism has become too fawning – time for a best hatchet job award? 2013-01-09T15:06:21Z A Los Angeles resident for more than a decade, Yoshiki, 45, has carefully planned his international debut, studying not only the Western music scene but also the English language. Yoshiki seeks global rock glory for X Japan 2011-03-09T03:42:09Z Photograph: Alamy Jorie Graham, one of the biggest names in American , is set to go head to head on the Forward prize shortlist with the poet often described as the English language's greatest, Geoffrey Hill. Jorie Graham and Geoffrey Hill lead Forward prize shortlist 2012-07-17T15:25:00Z It was their complaint that elicited Tussauds' assault on the English language. We've always found Hitler hilarious ? the alternative is much more odious 2011-08-27T23:06:06Z In their initial analysis of the database, the team found that around 8,500 new words enter the English language every year and the lexicon grew by 70% between 1950 and 2000. Google creates a tool to probe 'genome' of English words for cultural trends 2010-12-16T19:00:29Z As for inquiring about them, it is useful that in the English language, “you” is both singular and plural. Perspective | Miss Manners: Pregnancy updates from ‘we’ 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z It’s way past time for the Golden Globes to open their top drama and comedy-musical categories to films made outside the English language, but in the meantime, this will be an easy win for “Parasite.” 2020 Golden Globes Predictions: Which Movies Will Win? 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z He often made fun of himself, especially of his notoriously idiosyncratic way with the English language. Classical: Memories of Georg Solti as His Orchestra Comes to Town 2012-10-14T01:23:11Z But for many readers the real eye opener will be the heated love affair, richly documented by Professor Shapiro, between ordinary Americans and the most exalted writer in the English language. Measuring America’s Shakespearean Devotion 2014-03-19T20:47:10Z Even if you don’t want it to, you stubborn fool, the English language continues inexorably to grow and change. Style Invitational Week 1350: Find inspo in new dictionary words 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z As much as it is a musical tour de force, “Hamilton” is a love letter to the English language’s tonal richness and malleability. Review: ‘Hamilton’ in German? It’s a Thrill. 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z Did he build a "Chinese Wall" round literature, or raise the English language where it could most effectively handle literature? John Sutherland's top 10 books about books 2010-12-30T10:36:30Z As Kato, Taiwanese pop star Chou proves equally charismatic, although his struggle with the English language makes some of his line readings tricky to decipher. "Green Hornet" never reaches top speed 2011-01-12T22:47:03Z The Man Booker Prize is awarded each year for the best original novel, written in the English language and published in the UK. Two first-time authors make Man Booker Prize shortlist 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z The bulk of the book is a potted history of the development and spread of the English language. Books of The Times: In ?Globish,? Robert McCrum Traces the Spread of English 2010-05-25T21:08:00Z It survived centuries of religious turmoil and eventually became an insane asylum, giving the English language the word “bedlam”, a contraction of its name. More than just getting from A to B 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z The movie is also a work of meticulous creative precision top to bottom, starting with director Dan Trachtenberg's decision to shoot the film in versions featuring the English language and the Comanche language. With "Prey," Amber Midthunder gives us a woman warrior worthy of sequels 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z “Vocabulism” is a Salon series about how the internet is killing the English language, one word at a time. RIP “storytelling”: How online marketers and tech bros destroyed the word 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Being lazy is enough of an art for the two of them, Mr. Harrelson said, that they warped the English language to suit their shared taste for dawdling. Woody Harrelson, Rogue Number One 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z This sentimental impulse led, in 1623, to the First Folio — Mays calls it “the most important secular book in the English language” — a large-sized edition with a print run of around 750 copies. ‘The Millionaire and the Bard,’ by Andrea Mays 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Where foreign tourists throng to goggle at splashy entertainments that do not require fluency in the English language. Down-and-Outs Are Center Stage Once Again 2011-05-12T14:32:27Z In the aftermath of her Oscars success, Wertmüller was signed up by Warner Brothers for four English language films, but the deal only survived one flop. Ninety and out to shock: meet the first Oscar nominated female director 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z When the word entered the English language in the 13th century, it was used to refer to children of any gender. From "Barbie Girl" to Girl Dinner and beyond: What's behind our obsession with the girl-ish label 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z It’s an amassing or a compilation of late-night all-night sessions of him taking on the universe, mano a mano, with the tools of the English language and his own paranoiac investigations.” Philip K. Dick?s ?Exegesis? to Be Published 2010-04-29T21:27:00Z And so it is the former home of the author of “Middlemarch”—called by many the greatest novel in the English language—that Bloomberg recently purchased, for about twenty-five million dollars. What Michael Bloomberg Could Learn From "Middlemarch" 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z The English language created a network of soft power that nowadays extends even into every corner of Anglophone Amsterdam itself. The full story of the British empire is yet to be told 2012-12-28T19:31:12Z “He mobilized the English language, and sent it into battle.” The 10 best lines from movies in 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Wahl found a position for Mr. Bonnefoy at the National Center for Scientific Research to write on the New Criticism and the philosophy of literary criticism in the English language. Yves Bonnefoy, Pre-Eminent French Poet, Dies at 93 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z New to the English language, neither they nor I knew that it was wholly inappropriate music for an 8-year-old. ‘Prince Was Our True Artist’: Readers Share Their Memories 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z A book that gives the English language back to itself and your conscience back to itself. Maria Popova: By the Book 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Being someone who dealt with the English language in their profession, we tried, and brought our children up, to at least say, if not spell, words and phrases correctly, and to use correct terms. Perspective | Miss Manners: I’m educating these idiots, but they just think I’m rude! 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z It is the most prized literary award of all, an accolade that honours a writer's entire body of work and pits all living fiction authors writing in the English language against each other. Man Booker Prize: Amelia Hill on the 'Olympics of literature' 2011-03-30T06:00:05Z That’s Shakespeare, of course, the greatest foreign language in the English language. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Speaking the Same Language 2010-12-01T21:17:00Z He uses diagrams paired with the most common 1,000 words in the English language to explain complicated ideas. Bill Gates on Books and Blogging 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Like many words without an exact equivalent in the English language, nafas could translate to “breath” or “spirit.” Do You Have Nafas, the Elusive Gift That Makes Food Taste Better? 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z In compiling his supplement, was Dr. Burchfield more stuffy about the English language than his predecessors, or not? Sarah Ogilvie on Deletions From the Oxford English Dictionary 2012-11-28T23:40:36Z Indeed – and this is a compliment – The Canal is quite unlike any English language novel I can remember reading recently. Not the Booker prize: The Canal by Lee Rourke 2010-10-04T12:08:00Z Fifty-four years later, Mr. Silvers was still editing the New York Review, which he and Epstein built into what Esquire magazine called “the premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.” Robert Silvers, a founding editor of New York Review of Books, dies at 87 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z It’s the only comprehensive historical register and record of the English language that there is, which means it deals with language from the earliest period up to the present day. An Exit Interview With the Man Who Transformed the Oxford English Dictionary 2013-04-24T02:14:01Z What does the phrase mean, apart from a wretched violation of the English language in a way that makes a good argument for corporal punishment? Clean eating: yet another pious diet to squeeze the joy out of good food 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Its aim was to be "a comprehensive range of the literary masterpieces which have appeared in the English language since the 15th century". The new Penguin English Library is a far cry from its 1963 version 2012-05-24T07:00:00Z Despite rave reviews and box office successes, none of them could break the English language barrier. ‘Parasite’ Is Hoping to Do What These Movies Couldn’t: Win Best Picture 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z The terms – M, 007, licence to kill – have not just entered the English language, they are part of a global common currency, readily understood across the planet. James Bond – a ticket to distant joys 2012-09-28T21:55:09Z The novel is a leviathan of a read, thick with allegory, Scripture and some of the most poetic and dense writing in the English language. Television Review: Ahab Has a Wife and a Heart. Oh, and a Whale. 2011-07-31T22:18:03Z Professor Geoffrey Hill, who has been described as the greatest living poet in the English language, also became a knight. Queen's honors list includes actress Bonham Carter 2011-12-31T00:03:12Z Borges, who considered Browne the best prose writer in the English language, described paradise as a library, but paradises are overrated. I Can’t Afford These First Editions, but I Buy Them Anyway 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z "When you think of all the English language non-fiction books that are published each year, narrowing the field down to one winner is a formidable challenge," Davis said. 2010-02-05T09:59:00Z There is one man in Hollywood today who is infamous for his lack of ability to control his own desire to butcher dialects, accents, and really the English language as a whole: Tom Hardy. All hail Will Smith and Tom Hardy, Hollywood's bad accent kings 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z It was more than just one of the more colorful chapters in British history: The Gunpowder Plot helped shape the work of the most celebrated playwright in the English language. “It’s like if ‘When Harry Met Sally’ ended with everybody getting hit by a truck”: Inside the “Year of Lear” and the terrorist plot that changed Shakespeare 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z English language audio guides and guided tours can be arranged at the Tourist Information Office at Schlossplatz 2. A quiet German town welcomes some 2 million visitors for Martin Luther’s 500th 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z The King James Bible will be everywhere, feted alongside Shakespeare as one of the formative influences on the English language. A fetish for the Bible 2010-12-20T21:30:03Z What they didn’t understand wasn’t the religious ceremony, but rather the English language spoken during the Mass. Williston schools, churches adapt to population 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z About why the name Kramer worked best for Michael Richards’s character, she writes, “That plosive consonant K sound is known to be among the English language’s funniest phonemes.” Review: ‘Seinfeldia,’ on Why We Still Can’t Escape ‘Hello, Jerry’ 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z "Adam Roberts must surely soon be recognised by the literary establishment as one of the finest writers we currently have working in the English language." Adam Roberts wins BSFA prize for SF crime novel Jack Glass 2013-04-02T14:44:55Z Yet we’re meant to believe that an entire group of humans – who probably once had jobs – have forgotten the English language in the eight short years since the first zombie said “aaarrg”. The Walking Dead: season eight, episode five recap – The King, the Widow and Rick 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z At Chancery and with the Dedlocks, he lays on the pomp and circumstance as if taking the English language and gold-plating it. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 1: Bleak House 2012-02-07T09:59:35Z "Four worst words in the English language: Green Day Broadway musical," a friend texted me as the band performed "21 Guns" with what looked like the cast of "Rent." 2010-02-01T13:03:00Z “Parasite” had become the first film not in the English language to win best picture, a victory that felt like it could herald the start of something new. In a Post-‘Parasite’ World, What Happens Next? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z On the flip side, what words in the English language do you think are most beautiful? Open thread: Which words disgust you? 2013-04-02T16:49:00Z Age: In the English language, three or four hundred years old. ‘Daddy’ not cool: why hipster dads want their kids to call them ‘Papa’ 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Earlier this year, one of the organisers of the Jaipur festival, the British writer William Dalrymple, was drawn into a media row over the role of English language writing and western critics in south Asia. Kashmir's first literary festival hit by controversy 2011-08-12T13:53:24Z Continuing the metaphor, she later threw James Brown – whose funky shrieks, she said, introduced her to the English language – and Curtis Mayfield into the blender. Ang?lique Kidjo 2010-05-18T21:30:00Z The Orange prize was established in 1996 to promote women's and goes to the best novel of the year written by a woman in the English language. We Need To Talk About Kevin is UK's favourite Orange prize winner ? ever 2010-06-09T08:21:00Z The Man Booker International Prize is presented once every two years to a living author for a body of work published either originally in English or available in translation in the English language. Short story writer Lydia Davis wins Man Booker Intl fiction prize 2013-05-22T20:40:42Z There are also links to Chinese studios and the websites of film-makers, as well as independent English language reviews of movies. Website launch signals new appetite for exposure within Chinese film industry 2010-03-30T10:28:00Z Have more poetic words ever been spoken in the English language? 'Downton Abbey' recap: The proposal we've all been waiting for 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z The six simplest words in the English language are 'to be or not to be'. Globe theatre plans 205-nation Hamlet world tour 2013-07-16T06:00:31Z To Palmieri, the English language is uniquely suitable for verbal humour. Funny foreigners: how overseas comics are storming Edinburgh 2010-08-17T20:31:00Z Perhaps the first bookworm in the English language appears in the Exeter Book riddles: A moth eats words, gnawing through the pages as foodstuff but losing the sense. What Has One Eye and 1,200 Heads? An Old English Riddle, That’s What! 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Were you aware that it is one of the few words in the English language of Carthaginian origin? Christopher Buckley: Suburban Crank 2013-06-04T14:07:04Z The groom’s mother is the international baccalaureate program coordinator, and both a theory-of-knowledge and an English language and literature teacher at the Amman National School, a private school there. Anna Meacham, Said Nashashibi 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Gyllenhaal said her film is “Italian in its bones” even though it was shot in Greece and in the English language. Audrey Diwan’s ‘Happening’ wins Venice Film Fest’s top honor 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Bryan is especially tough on the English language; as a judge, he’s Randy Jackson reincarnate. The New ‘American Idol’: Youth Gone Wild and an Understanding Dad 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z I want to break a bottle of Champagne across its bow and wish it a long and happy voyage across the English language. Bedsharing but friendzoned 2012-11-16T01:00:00Z Now, a new dictionary — the Oxford Dictionary of African American English — will attempt to codify the contributions and capture the rich relationship Black Americans have with the English language. Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Hall, a British journalist who lives part-time in India, splendidly evokes the color and bustle of Delhi streets and the tang of contemporary India's charmingly old-fashioned use of the English language. Crime fiction from the world's hot spots, from Beijing to Sedalia, Mo. 2010-06-09T23:59:00Z Famously, the ingenuity of the English language and our fondness for puns has since been shown at its finest by slogans on everything everywhere including a provocative position at the top of women's stockings. Keep Calm and Carry On trademark battle enters new year 2013-01-02T19:53:35Z Across Quebec, a Francophone province of 8.5 million people that has been buffeted by centuries of subjugation and fears of being subsumed by the English language, Dion has at times been a polarizing figure. 25 Years After ‘Titanic,’ Quebec’s Love for Céline Dion Will Go On 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z And Hollywood being Hollywood, most of the debate will be centered on the English language films in the running for the prestigious awards. 7 must-see foreign films that didn’t get an Oscar nod 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z His singular spin on the English language and American pop culture continue to elicit chef’s kisses. The actor behind ‘Barry’s’ NoHo Hank, TV’s happiest mobster 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Curtiz, the belligerent director of “Casablanca,” who had been born in Hungary and was engaged in a perpetual wrestling match with the English language, did not approve: The Matchless Presence of Doris Day 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Sponsored by the University of Wales, the lucrative prize is designed to encourage creative talent in writers under the age of 30, and is open to any work written in the English language. Dylan Thomas prize goes to US poet 2010-12-02T15:19:00Z Does the English language fail us, Baldwin wonders, in the face of racist terror? Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Literary Freedom as an Essential Human Right 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Raised in Edinburgh, Mr. Proffitt moved south to attend the University of Oxford, where he studied English language and literature. O.E.D.’s New Chief Editor Speaks of Its Future 2014-01-21T21:45:05Z But if it is to succeed in at least matching the original film, it needs to exist for reasons that go beyond pandering to English language audiences who cannot abide subtitles. Will Let Me In have the right stuff? 2010-07-05T15:53:00Z Governments across Asia are funding after-school Scrabble clubs to build English language skills, and parents increasingly see it as a fun way for kids to learn. Scrabble casts spell over Asia with Welsh hugs and mustard seeds 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z "It is a fitting tribute to his memory that the quality of entries has been so high and it gives us great confidence for the future of English language poetry." All-female shortlist for inaugural Edwin Morgan prize 2011-07-08T10:57:26Z His "Goosebumps" series has more than 350 million English language books in print and has been translated into 32 languages. R.L. Stine reveals how Netflix's bloody "Fear Street" trilogy "loosened me up" 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z EDT 12:32 If you want to watch along with us without the combined body odour of the press room here in Cannes then here’s a link to the English language version of the awards. Cannes 2016: follow the ceremony as the winners are announced - live! 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Bong Joon-ho’s comedy-drama about an impoverished family who infiltrate the household of a wealthier one is the first film not in the English language to take the top prize. Parasite makes Oscars history as first foreign language film to win best picture 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z He was considered one of the foremost critics in the English language and often wrote for the New York Review of Books and other leading publications. John Bayley, British literary scholar who wrote a memoir about his wife, author Iris Murdoch, dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Garner is one of the very greatest fantasy writers in the English language, though I admit that the categorisations of his work as "Children's" or "Fantasy" are meaningless. Graham Joyce's top 10 fairy fictions 2012-06-27T12:57:57Z Young Thug, “Jeffery” Coaxing a baffling array of sounds from his words, rap’s most dazzling expressionist continues to juice the English language in stunning and stylish ways. The best music of 2016: YG, Beyoncé, Maren Morris and more 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z But the largest dictionary of the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary, is always adding new words. Language evolves, and that’s okay (O.K.?) 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z They air their opinions with the aplomb of thinkers who relish the English language, roll its tones and innuendos about their tongues and have the alertness to listen as well as speak. The Friday Night Gab Sessions That Fueled 18th-Century British Culture 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Instead, it's fast becoming the most promiscuously deployed one in the English language. Why Soulja Boy shouldn't be sorry 2011-09-07T15:08:00Z I'm not generally into political speechifying, but this is a wondrous, historic speech, full of profound themes and an artful use of the English language. Roundup: A Rembrandt returns, finding Mary Ellen Mark's iconic smoking girl 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Art lovers pack the Saturday tours — English language at noon. In Rome, Using ‘Roman Holiday’ as a Guide 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Can “Drive My Car” follow the path of “Parasite” and become the next film not in the English language to clinch best picture and director Oscars? Here’s How Each Best-Picture Nominee Could Win an Oscar 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z She loves working in the US, and in the English language. Léa Seydoux: ‘For Bond, you have to be up for it. I had to work, to get fit’ 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z By the end of an evening in his company, you'll doubt there are any expressions in the English language that he couldn't invert, subvert or mine for deeply buried dual meanings. Milton Jones – review 2013-02-10T16:55:06Z “I don’t care. I don’t own the English language,” he says. We’re all so ‘mindful’ these days. But what the heck does that mean? 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z It’s a meditation on the English language, about where it’s been and where it’s going. Books of The Times: In ?Globish,? Robert McCrum Traces the Spread of English 2010-05-25T21:08:00Z Eric Partridge was the leading English language slang lexicographer of the 20th century. Slang: The universal language 2012-10-15T11:45:00Z As everyone says, he's the finest comedy writer the English language has ever produced. Jeeves and Wooster head for West End 2013-06-03T06:32:46Z By 1781, the French word migraine entered the English language as the accepted medical term, replacing older words such as megrim . Review | Migraines have plagued me for years. A new book puts my pain in perspective. 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z It’s easy to forget that every word in the English language has had a first use; a language is the record of innumerable creative decisions. From woke to gammon: buzzwords by the people who coined them 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z What words in the English language do you loathe? Open thread: Which words disgust you? 2013-04-02T16:49:00Z For such writers, the inevitable engagement with the English language was fraught with difficulty. Chinua Achebe: leader of a generation 2013-03-26T13:44:53Z As he joked, "The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting.' " John Oliver rails against cable companies over net neutrality 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z There are many words in the English language that are victims of verbal abuse. Andrew Anthony 2010-05-15T23:05:00Z In them he declared what he called “a protective interest in the English language,” which, he warned, was falling prey to windiness, witlessness, ungrammaticality, obfuscation and other depredations. Edwin Newman, Journalist, Dies at 91 2010-09-16T15:17:00Z James, of course, is all about words, his self-confessed aim in his TV shows has been to get across the joy of the English language, as well as the humour of the human race. Rewind radio: Shelagh Fogarty; World at One; Scott Mills; Whytemead Weekly – review 2012-06-23T23:05:43Z But if I had to choose one it would be “The Great Gatsby,” just to see what it’s possible to do with the English language. ‘Her Prose Is Sometimes Poetry’: Why Margaret Jull Costa Loves Virginia Woolf 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z “One of my favorite lines is where Lord Halifax says Churchill ‘mobilized the English language and sent it into battle’.” Gary Oldman slays dragons to play Churchill in 'Darkest Hour' 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z "The two most depressing words in the English language are 'literary fiction'," declared David Hare recently in this newspaper. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z But that doesn’t mean they ignore how the English language and usage are evolving. 5 earth-shattering changes in the new edition of ‘The Chicago Manual of Style’ 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z But becoming a ceremony for all cinema, and not just that in the English language, could restore the Oscars’ primacy. Parasite's best picture triumph could begin a new era for the Oscars 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Feature films in the English language seem to obsess more and more on only one thing at a time – they concentrate on their given subject with a kind of furious, exhausting dullness. Mad Men: the future of American film is on television 2010-09-08T08:01:00Z Rumors have long swirled that Ó Cadhain, angry at the social and cultural dominance of the English language, refused to permit a translation. The Irish Novel That’s So Good People Were Scared to Translate It 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z “Children of tomorrow will have no understanding of the English language,” Mr. Federighi said jokingly. Hands Off My Smiley Face: Emoji Become Corporate Tools 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z And he is unlikely to learn about problems that are not reported by English speakers or English language news organizations. The Getaway: Cruise Mishaps: How Normal Are They? 2013-05-08T19:55:44Z This poem, in its stealthy way, begins to seem like one of the great divorce poems in the English language. John Berryman Is Reconsidered in 4 New Books 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert kicked off by discussing the findings from the Congressional Budget Office, “the three most boring words in the English language”. Late-night TV on Trump: 'A magician who never finishes a trick' 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z And, of course, they have had an enormous influence on poetry in the English language. Poem of the week: Psalm 23 2011-02-07T10:26:09Z The ENO, which almost exclusively stages operas in the English language, competes in the British capital with the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, just half a mile away. Hit "Butterfly" gets loving touch in vital ENO revival 2013-10-25T12:13:24Z The Man Booker Prize is awarded each year for the best original novel, written in the English language and published in the UK. Two first-time authors make Man Booker Prize shortlist 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z This English language hymn expressed a feeling common to many American Jews living as a tiny minority. How Hanukkah came to America 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Eunoia, which means "beautiful thinking" according to Guinness World Records, is the shortest word in the English language that has all five main vowels. National Dictionary Day: Surprising facts about the resource book 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z It’s the first time that award has gone to a film not in the English language, and an even more remarkable feat given that none of the movie’s individual actors were nominated. SAG Award Winners 2020: ‘Parasite’ Pulls Off Huge Victory 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z People say the two saddest words in the English language are “What party?” ‘Age of Vice’: A Lush Thriller Dives Into New Delhi’s Underworld 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z I feel that the English language will be able to carry the weight of my African experience. Chinua Achebe: A life in writing 2010-12-13T08:00:00Z In an interlude that added some levity, she proposed the addition of a new vowel to the English language, so as to prevent the mispronunciation of words like “namaste.” La MaMa Moves! Remains a Freewheeling Home for Dance 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z That means English language programming that can catch on with a mainstream audience but that is geared toward Latinos. US television wakes up to growing Latino audience with new options 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z A: The remarkable vulnerability of those blue eyes, the soul of a poet and one of the most beautiful voices in the English language. Book Talk: Anjelica Huston on an Irish childhood and famous father 2014-01-23T22:11:42Z The annual prize will be for a work of fiction written in the English language published in the UK. New book prize finds sponsorship 2012-12-11T13:07:44Z Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is generally understood to be the longest word in the English language, with 45 letters. National Dictionary Day: Surprising facts about the resource book 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z The inaugural winner of the £40,000 prize, for a work of fiction in the English language published in the UK, will be announced in March 2014. First Folio Prize judges announced 2013-07-16T07:35:59Z "It shows the English language novel to be a form of world literature," he added. Toibin and Crace on Booker shortlist 2013-09-10T14:46:52Z Scholars consider the folio one of the most important printed works in the English language. Flashy book dealer in limo for Shakespeare trial 2010-06-16T15:00:00Z His legacy will almost certainly be in his art songs, which are unmatched in the American canon in their appreciation and understanding of the contours of the English language. In Life and Music, Ned Rorem Was Unwaveringly Himself 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z In legend, the story of 1940 is uncomplicated: Churchill, as Edward R. Murrow observed, mobilized the English language and sent it into battle, and once the fighting was over light triumphed over darkness. Great Leadership in a Time of Crisis 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z She’d recently come from a class on the history of the English language, where the professor had offered his scholarly appraisal of each student’s name. Review | Email and texting are terrible. There’s an easy solution: Write more letters by hand. 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z First published as a kind of pamphlet, the book is easy to read, and should not be much of a challenge to Buhari, who — as I hear — has been struggling with the English language lately. Chigozie Obioma: By the Book 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z The violence the internet does to the English language is simply the cost of doing business in the digital age. George Orwell's critique of internet English 2013-05-20T09:55:44Z As a longtime simultaneous interpreter at the United Nations, I had a front-row seat to the conquest of the world by the English language. Arctic Explorers, New Jersey Literature and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Over half the students are “English language learners,” and 98.5 percent are “socioeconomically disadvantaged.” Motherlode Blog: Why I Want to Choose the ‘Disadvantaged’ Local School (and Why I Might Not) 2013-05-30T18:30:20Z In the middle of the 19th century, three men came up with the idea of creating a dictionary of every word in the English language. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z An initial list of all of the five-letter words in the English language — about 12,000 — contained a lot of obscure words that would have been near impossible to guess. Wordle Is a Love Story 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z The world of copyright in the English language was divided just two ways. The transformation of publishing 2012-11-09T22:54:01Z “He had those six years in Lithuania, and looks at the English language and words differently than we all do,” Mrs. Jaffee said. New Sketch of a Madcap?s Mad Life 2010-10-01T15:53:00Z We know people are passionate about the preservation and evolution of the English language, and we want to tap into that as new words continue to capture the public imagination. War of wordcraft: invitation to write dictionary puts language nerds on alert 2012-07-18T11:08:04Z "Anyone with a basic understanding of the English language with access to any sort of media, whether it is a newspaper, radio or the internet, should be aware of the offensiveness," he said. Princess Cruises apologizes following accusations of 'racist' Maori-inspired ceremony in New Zealand 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z If you want to watch along with us without the combined body odour of the press room here in Cannes then here’s a link to the English language version of the awards. Cannes 2016: follow the ceremony as the winners are announced - live! 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Ronald Reagan called these the nine most terrifying words in the English language: “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Perspective | Facebook launches a charm offensive — and vows to pay (some) news organizations for their journalism 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Of course, the two shortest words in the entire English language are "I" and "a", with just one letter each. National Dictionary Day: Surprising facts about the resource book 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z Each is a brilliant writer with great skill with words and the English language. Larry Kramer Wishes More People Wrote About Gay History 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Youngmi has since acknowledged this, and called the English language subtitles — which differ from the closed captioning subtitles — "substantially better." “Squid Game” faces controversy over English subtitle translations 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z The point is it’s impossible to know, especially in the only English language version, which seems to have been translated by a drunk computer. Charlie Kaufman Is Sorry, He’s a Bit Distracted 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z It’s very rare to find someone whose first language isn’t English, yet who has such a complete command of the nuances and subtleties of the English language. Christoph Waltz: 'Try as you might, you can never break free from your past' 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z "Except for the useful abbreviations i.e., e.g., and etc …" Orwell declares, "there is no real need for any of the hundreds of foreign phrases now current in the English language." My problem with George Orwell 2013-01-17T15:49:30Z Khan also overlooks a simple fact that strikes any visitor to India – the fastidious precision in the use of the English language. Much Ado About Nothing – review 2012-08-02T10:52:23Z Tash Aw's debut, The Harmony Silk Factory , set in 1940s Malaya, established him as an important voice in conveying the stories of south-east Asia to an English language audience. Map of the Invisible World by Tash Aw 2010-04-17T23:09:00Z She wrote some of the finest novels in the English language. Toni Morrison Dancing: Photos of the Author at Work and Play 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z But as the right commits harakiri on the English language, the left seems happy to play the same game, taking the low-hanging fruit from disaffected Republicans. A tale of two populisms: Do you want to live in Donald Trump’s New York or Bob Dylan’s America? 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z It was his first English language role, after appearing in over 20 Egyptian films. Omar Sharif dies at the age of 83 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Anglo denoting a nominal English language and cultural heritage is a proper analog. A Latina Disney Movie Princess? The Wait Isn’t Over 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z After graduating from Nanyang University in 1968 with a degree in English language and literature, he found work as press attaché at the French Embassy in Singapore. A Multifaceted Singaporean Painter Breaks Barriers 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z A former chief editor of the dictionary, Simpson reflects on nearly four decades as a gatekeeper of the English language. Paperback Row 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Do what you wish to the English language, but leave me out of it. Language Rules for the Digital Age 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z In one of the most shocking and potent poems in the English language, called “Donor,” Clifton speaks to the daughter who is about to give her a kidney. Books of The Times: ‘The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, 1965-2010’ 2012-10-11T16:46:12Z "Excuse me, I am a Frenchman, and I am afraid I don't speak very well English, but …" Of course, sometimes the English language version is the secondary version. Readers recommend: foreign language versions ? the results 2011-03-10T17:26:30Z The second page of her first chapter lists the "big six" of the "worst words" in the English language – rather like the yearly rundown of the most popular baby names. Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing by Melissa Mohr – review 2013-06-30T14:00:02Z But a musical pulse and symmetry suffuse Joyce’s work, and his way of reconfiguring the English language has something in common, conceptually, with the way contemporary composers have treated notes, rhythms and timbres. Music Review: A Meandering Thread Becomes James Joyce 2010-10-10T19:42:00Z If we are to be shocked, we must define our terms with the same pedantry that Martin shows to the English language. The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? 2010-04-26T21:00:00Z Seeking to learn more about the area, we met with a 31-year-old assistant professor of English language and literature at Dawar College. A Journey to Kashmir’s Gurez Valley 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z From the proper use of "affect" and "effect" to his thoughts on the Oxford comma, Grammer is giving more than 26,000 followers solid lessons on the English language. Kelsey Grammer joins Twitter to clean up everyone's poor grammar 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z If the English novel does nothing to renew the English language, then it really doesn't do anything. Why book bloggers are critical to literary criticism 2012-09-26T15:37:00Z On arrival in London as a teenager, he enrolled on an English language course at Pitman College. Chimen Abramsky obituary 2010-03-18T18:38:00Z And Neo is the only English language anime-specific magazine available in the UK. I nominate Japanese anime for most underrated genre 2011-02-25T12:38:19Z “You read all the poets of the English language in chronological order, you learn Chinese, you learn enough Provençal to read the troubadours,” Weinberger paraphrased. The Unclassifiable Essays of Eliot Weinberger 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z “There are 108 single-word prepositions in the English language,” she writes, “and none is adequate to representing the relation of mind to body.” ‘A Body, Undone’: A writer paralyzed in an accident dictates a powerful memoir 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z It is “arguably the most powerful negative word in the American English language,” the author Inga Muscio writes. About Samantha Bee, Ivanka Trump and That Word 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z “There are more than 2,000 palindromes in the English language.” Perspective | Gene Weingarten: I declare these jokes groundbreaking 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Originally published in Welsh, the English language translation is out now. Rachel Trezise's top 10 Welsh underground novels 2010-05-19T07:56:00Z Ms. Ross takes a cultivated and nearly Nabokovian joy in the English language. Review: ‘Oreo,’ a Sandwich-Cookie of a Feminist Comic Novel 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Is there a more unpleasant conjoining of nouns in the English language? Dance Review: Lauri Stalling?s gloATL Drafts Viewers at DMAC Center 2010-06-14T01:40:00Z Being a diligent custodian of the English language, for many years I've refused to acknowledge P!nk's existence on account of that exclamation mark. Man Like Me, Peace, Depeche Mode: this week's new tracks 2013-03-18T06:00:00Z The English don't own the English language; the Jews don't own the Holocaust; the French don't own Verdun. Yann Martel 2010-06-22T19:00:00Z Only she doesn't say "guys" -- she uses one of the most offensive words in the English language, before proceeding to unleash bloody vengeance upon the bad guys. Teen actress flexes muscles in "Kick-Ass" 2010-04-20T00:22:00Z He was the effete Yale man and the blue blood wimp; the awkward statesman who, when called upon to speak, diced the English language into an uneven and mysterious julienne. Review: In ‘Destiny and Power,’ George H.W. Bush Epitomizes a Vanishing G.O.P. 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z “Titanic” may be, as some claim, one of the most universally recognized names in the English language. On the Titanic, Defined by What They Wore 2012-04-11T20:37:03Z Have there ever been more effective ambassadors for the English language? Readers recommend: foreign language versions ? the results 2011-03-10T17:26:30Z It's the English language adaptation of Swedish author Steig Larsson's first installment of his popular Millennium thriller series, with tales of avenging sexual violence against women. A Minute With: David Fincher on his "Dragon Tattoo" 2011-11-23T10:02:27Z The UK Sound Archive includes recordings of local accents and dialects used to monitor the evolution of the English language and sounds of rare or extinct wildlife. Campaign to save UK sound archive 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Shakespeare added more than 1,700 new words and phrases to the English language — many still in use. How did Shakespeare shape the English language? 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z The Russian government’s English language television station, RT, sent chocolate models of the Salisbury cathedral to news agencies. After ‘The Salisbury Poisonings,’ Locals Picked Up the Pieces 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Half a century later, the eminent Nirad C. Chaudhuri would still call it “the finest novel in the English language with an Indian theme.” In defense of Rudyard Kipling and ‘The Jungle Books’ 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z OXFORD, England — To compile a dictionary of nearly every word in the English language was an endeavor typical of Victorian times, complete with white-bearded gentlemen, utter confidence and an endearingly plodding pace. O.E.D.’s New Chief Editor Speaks of Its Future 2014-01-21T21:45:05Z I’ve always loved the English language, the playfulness of compound words, the sounds, the rhythms. This Week in Fiction: Camille Bordas on What Things Are Worth Worrying About 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z The ugliest phrase in the English language, as far as I’m concerned, is “pot-luck supper,” especially if you style the first word without the hyphen. A Holiday From Criticism 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z James Baldwin learned how to lock and load the English language as a child prodigy storefront preacher. When James Baldwin Squared Off Against William F. Buckley Jr. 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Neither has any connection with, or understanding of, the literary energies of the global English language in, for example, the Middle East, China or the Pacific. The Booker prize and the battle for supremacy in a literary awards jungle 2013-03-12T10:48:31Z Last week, Reliance Broadcast Network Ltd. signed a deal with CBS Studios International to launch three new English language television channels to be broadcast across the Indian subcontinent later this year. "Slumdog" helps usher in Hollywood's Indian era 2010-08-25T00:37:00Z “One of my favorite lines is where Lord Halifax says Churchill ‘mobilized the English language and sent it into battle’.” Gary Oldman slays dragons to play Churchill in 'Darkest Hour' 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z The project, from studio Fox Searchlight, will be the Festen director's English language debut. Tom Sturridge to join Carey Mulligan in Far From the Madding Crowd film 2013-07-19T12:49:20Z Last Friday, the New Yorker’s Culture Desk blog announced a contest asking readers to nominate the word that most urgently needs to be eliminated from the English language. ArtsBeat: New Yorker Word Nerds Drop 'Slacks' in Online Contest 2012-04-24T19:26:06Z The book has appeared on multiple best-of lists, such as the top 100 children’s books of all time and the top 100 books written in the English language. Perspective | Adolescence is temporary. ‘It’s Me, Margaret’ is forever. 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z You’d be surprised how smooth it becomes, torturing the English language to field questions without using gender pronouns. Get to know the lesbians! 2013-01-27T22:00:00Z But announcing the award, Michael Wood, chair of the judges, said, "The instrument is the English language -- or perhaps I should say English languages. Englishes." Marlon James wins the Man Booker Prize 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z On May 31, the most commonly used words on English language Twitter included “terrorist,” “violence” and “racist.” Is Everybody Doing … OK? Let’s Ask Social Media 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z He set the words of some of the most revered poets in the English language: Shakespeare, Donne, Keats, Blake, Auden. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z This one is bad enough, even if it does make for one hell of a punchline: "One of the most chilling phrases in the English language," Colbert says, "is 'Surprise! It's Rudy Giuliani.'" "The Masked Singer" may not normalize Rudy Giuliani, but its a crime to even try to make him cuddly 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z His always-fragile emotional world was shattered, and he wrote about his feelings in some of the most powerful, but also complex, breakup lyrics in the English language. Breakup songs owe a lot to the lovelorn lyrics of the Romantics 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z In the 80s and 90s, three sequels were added to the original, and these four were then marketed as a “quadrilogy”, a phrase bursting horribly through the frail chest of the English language. Alien: Covenant – why Ridley Scott's facehuggers and chestbursters will never die 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z The English language doesn't have a good second person plural pronoun; "you" can be both singular and plural, but it's sometimes awkward to use as a plural. ‘Y'all,’ that most Southern of Southernisms, is going mainstream – and it’s about time 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z Few phrases in the English language conjure dread quite like "low-budget gritty social realism", it being almost invariably shorthand for cartoonish rubbish that will make you eat your own fists in embarrassment. Plan B: 'I love directing. But does my art change lives? I don't think it does' 2012-06-07T19:00:08Z Right Tune, Right Singer: Pure Alchemy “Bemused,” the title of the singer Christine Andreas’s deliciously tangy show at 54 Below, is one of the most misused and hard-to-pin-down words in the English language. Music Review: Christine Andreas in ‘Bemused,’ at 54 Below 2013-01-29T23:07:45Z The word is a combination of the Old Norse and English languages meaning “be in good health” or “be fortunate.” Christmas might be over, but for some, the holidays are just beginning 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z They’re both the eldest daughters of prominent maverick Republicans known for mangling the English language. The ballad of Bristol and Ivanka: Does Sarah Palin’s eldest daughter want to be BFFs with Trump’s? An investigation 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z The Wake invokes death and the dying of the light with some of the most sublime poetry in the English language. James Joyce by Carol Birch 2011-07-29T21:55:03Z This week, New York state began the first part of its standardized testing for grade school students with the English language arts exams. It’s not as easy as just opting out of testing 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Of all the contributions that Lewis Carroll made to the English language—burble, chortle, gimble, galumph—by far the most useful to contemporary culture is “rabbit hole.” The Rabbit-Hole Rabbit Hole 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The more I see this play, the more it strikes me as one the finest farces in the English language. The Comedy of Errors 2010-06-30T20:31:00Z None of the students present were Black, but many were stunned and appalled at the reporter’s casual repetition of one of the most harmful words in the English language. A star reporter’s resignation, a racial slur and a newsroom divided: Inside the fallout at the New York Times 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z To be sure it wrought a great deal of damage and suffering in pursuit of riches, but also exported much to the world, the English language, chief amongst them. The Sun Never Set on the British Empire, or Its Food 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Leadership training and English language lessons have been raised so far, but the project is still in development. As Museums Become Her Ally, Suzanne Lacy Brings Her Activism Inside 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z There were sounds involved that are not part of the English language at all. Meryl Streep, Diane Lane and Others on the Legacy of Elizabeth Swados 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z And yet, the English language, not football, is our greatest gift to the world. Literary debate 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z This deeply personal concert had two musical directors: Mary-Mitchell Campbell for the English language songs and the guitarist David Oquendo for the Latin American material. Music Review: American Songbook?s Afro-Cuban Connection 2011-02-22T00:00:10Z “China is pursuing high-quality development, and the United States is revitalizing its economy,” he said, according to an English language translation. Fresh off meeting with China’s Xi, Biden is turning his attention to Asia-Pacific economies 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z Universities are also increasingly relaxing requirements on English language, thereby reducing the need for foreign talent to push Xi's agenda of developing China into a science and technology powerhouse. Private schools rethink China future after flunking growth test 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z "And as it turned out, the greatest playwright in the English language." Shakespeare's portrait sent to edge of space to mark 400 years of 'First Folio' 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z The state-run, English language newspaper The Global Times published a cartoon of Uncle Sam with bloodstained hands. What China wants from Israel-Hamas war 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z The U.S. government doesn’t require states to report graduation data by gender the way they must break it out by racial and ethnic groups and for children with disabilities, English language learners and homeless students. Boys graduate high school at lower rates than girls, with lifelong consequences 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z Third year linguistics and English language student Kate said that student satisfaction at Edinburgh was "incredibly low" because a lack of action over harassment allegations. Edinburgh University failing over sexual misconduct complaints - students 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z Geopolitical tensions have also added to concerns of an English language vacuum, making China more inward-looking. Private schools rethink China future after flunking growth test 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z In short, a complex and evolving system — whether that’s a flock of gold finches or a nebula or the English language — will produce ever more diverse and intricately detailed states and configurations of itself. The "missing law" of nature was here all along 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z “Traditionally, math scores are more responsive to school factors than English language arts scores, because kids don’t tend to use math outside of school,” Darling-Hammond said. Test scores show L.A. students still struggling to recover from pandemic setbacks 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Describing herself as born to “bear witness,” Glück felt at home with the written word and regarded the English language as her gift, even her “inheritance.” Louise Glück, Nobel-winning poet of terse and candid lyricism, dies at 80 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z The effort to crack down on French and private schools teaching outside the nationally mandated curriculum comes as Algeria adds English language courses in elementary schools. Algeria forces Francophone schools to adopt Arabic curriculum but says all languages are welcome 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z My apologies for not mining the depths of the English language for that description, but the word seems most apt. Mariners’ 2 biggest stars deserve blame for missed postseason 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z According to estimates by consultants in India, over 100,000 students were preparing for the English language proficiency test and arranging financing to study in Canada next year. As Canada-India tensions rise, Canadian colleges seek to reassure students 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z “Google was taking a big bet, but when it looked at YouTube’s rise, it saw pure potential,” writes Lorenz, putting every cliché in the English language through a Peloton workout. L.A. tech reporter Taylor Lorenz falls down the influencer rabbit hole 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z English language schools were sprouting up all over the capital like wild mushrooms. Reverse migration: Why I'm moving from France to Algeria 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z Last June, teacher Kyle Jackson started an English language arts lesson by getting his kindergartners to sound out the beginning and end of words. Can Seattle close literacy gaps for kids of color with science of reading? 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z Those who read further quickly realized that something was deeply wrong with the article; the anonymous editor who wrote it seemed almost, but not quite, totally unfamiliar with the way the English language works. Don’t Blame AI. Plagiarism Is Turning Digital News into Hot Garbage 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Sanaz Toossi steps into the role she wrote as one of four Iranian students preparing for an English language exam over several weeks in a storefront school near Tehran. Sanaz Toossi, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, makes the leap to star in her own play, ‘English’ 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z The phonics method of converting each letter to a particular sound is totally unsuited to the English language. Two-Thirds of American Kids Can’t Read Fluently 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z That win was groundbreaking; it was the first time an actor or actress had won an Academy Award for a role not in the English language. Sophia Loren: Italian star has emergency surgery after fall 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z So the district expanded math and English language arts to 80 minutes every day in the middle school and 120 minutes each day in the elementary school. To improve at math, do students and teachers simply need more time? 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z This whole falsehood was cooked up and amplified by Russian intelligence and then pumped out in one of their English language propaganda arms called The Oriental Review. "On Disinformation" and why we can't "expect journalists to save us" 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Those aviators are being evaluated for English language skills right now, and depending on their proficiency and previous fighter jet experience, they could complete the U.S. training within three months, Lt. Ukrainian pilots could be flying F-16s in three months, Air National Guard head says 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z Ahead of the publication of the trade figures, Chinese state-run newspaper The Global Times ran a story on its English language website criticising negative comments by Western politicians and media about the country's economy. China exports fall for the fourth month in a row 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z “I listened to a lot of Howard Stern. Got used to the English language. That, and ‘Seinfeld.’” Meet the Seattle artist who created USPS' new piñata stamps 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z In 2022, just 8 percent of students were proficient in math and 11 percent were proficient in English language arts. Tulsa Schools, Under Threat of Takeover, Retain Control for Now 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z The training will begin after the pilots receive English language training next month, Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Pat Ryder said. Ukrainian pilots to receive F-16 training in US 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z The organization offered seminars on home ownership and community empowerment along with adult GED and English language classes to largely Spanish-only speaking residents. Watts' Arturo Ybarra, the 'epitome of what a community activist should be,' dies 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z It follows Welsh language broadcaster S4C insisting it would make "no apologies" for including more English language in its output. Welsh language: Is mixing with English causing 'erosion'? 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z She was learning how to read, and he was learning the English language. When Felix Hernandez is inducted into Mariners Hall of Fame, his Everett host family will be watching 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z "The original papers were a revolution in English language assessment, setting clear goals and emphasising the ability to use the language." Cambridge University releases 1913 English test question 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z AP classes are designed as college-level courses for high school students, who can earn college credit by passing standardized tests in subjects that include calculus, biology, physics and English language and composition. Dorsey High students take on AP African American history and racism. Talks run deep 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z Applicants need a job offer from an employer and must meet an English language requirement. UK relaxes visa rules to attract foreign construction workers 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z Her debut English language novel Drift, a love story set between the Welsh coast and warn-torn Syria, was called a "stunning piece of fiction" by the judges. Wales Book of the Year 2023: Novelist Caryl Lewis wins award 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z For example, English language Google search results for “Titan sub” yields over 300 million results and “Greek shipwreck 2023” 11 million. Why some tragic deaths seem to matter more than others 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z Applicants would take the multiple-choice test on a tablet rather than orally with an examiner, reducing the interaction that allows examiners to judge their English language skills. Experts debate whether new citizenship test will be harder to pass 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Under federal law, most applicants seeking citizenship must demonstrate an understanding of the English language – including an ability to speak, read and write words in ordinary usage – and demonstrate knowledge of U.S. history and government. US citizenship test changes are coming, raising concerns for those with low English skills 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z Under federal law, most applicants seeking citizenship must demonstrate an understanding of the English language – including an ability to speak, read and write words in ordinary usage – and demonstrate knowledge of U.S. history and government. US citizenship test changes are coming, raising concerns for those with low English skills 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z The complaint says the same supervisor “instructed her writing faculty to teach that White supremacy exists in language itself, and therefore, that the English language itself is ‘racist.’” White professor files reverse discrimination lawsuit against Penn State 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z "Social media companies' responses to abuse and threat published on their platforms evolved throughout the tournament but still indicated many blind spots, particularly outside of English language content," said the report. Almost 20,000 abusive posts during 2022 World Cup 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z It’s also accepting volunteers who can help provide English language tutoring and computer training, visit isolated seniors and assist with immigration legal services. Want to help migrants and refugees in L.A. and California? Here are organizations you can support 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Conservatives have been attempting to revise the English language, changing the meanings of terms such as “critical race theory” to suit their worldview. Essay: Is racism making us too tired to fight it? 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z One bilingual confluence famously changed the trajectory of the English language. A New English Dialect Is Emerging in South Florida, Linguists Say 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z But “Getz/Gilberto” producer Creed Taylor and others thought they could expand the record’s appeal by including both Portuguese and English language vocals. Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian singer who gave us 'The Girl From Ipanema,' dies at 83 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z One quoted a price of £120 for an AQA geography paper and £150 for an English language paper. Fake GCSE and A-level exam papers sold on Instagram and TikTok 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z If such a large group of people were in one hotel, "there is no opportunity to do some of the integration work", English language classes and other services, he said. Asylum hotel: Home Office confirms Llanelli plans from July 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z But one thing that hasn’t changed is the skill and dedication of the top spellers in the English language. Top speller in English to be crowned at Scripps National Spelling Bee finals 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z During this period, more than 10,000 loanwords from French entered the English language, mostly in domains where the aristocracy held sway: the arts, military, medicine, law and religion. A New English Dialect Is Emerging in South Florida, Linguists Say 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z She has used her English language skills to work for a nonprofit in Washington. Afghan Women Who Aided U.S. Military Wait for Asylum in America 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z ChatGPT may be a modern marvel of computer engineering and a shockingly good practitioner of the English language — but don’t expect it to actually be correct. Confidently incorrect: For ChatGPT, the truth isn’t always out there 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z Each word has been vetted by the panel and slotted into the appropriate round of the nearly century-old annual competition to identify the English language’s best speller. Exclusive secrets of the National Spelling Bee: Picking the words to identify a champion 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z The chronicle of his six-day journey in the southern part of the island had dominated the bookstores as the only well-known work on Sardinia in the English language for a century. Death in Sardinia: Murder, an unpublished masterpiece and Italy's misunderstood island 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z Under one projection, which included time for specialized English language lessons, around four pilots would be in each class, with between 12 to 14 pilots completing the training in a 12-month period. Ukraine Got the Keys to the F-16. Now Come the Lessons. 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Consumers around the world purchased a wide range of “Made in USA” products, including Coca-Cola, Levi’s jeans, and Hollywood movies, which, along with American music, helped to spread the American dialect of the English language. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z For example, in the English language, the letter q is usually followed by the letter u and never by the letter k. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The Pulitzer for drama went to Sanaz Toossi for “English,” a play about four Iranians preparing for an English language exam. Debt Showdown 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z But the latest programme in the TV documentary series Putin's Shadow War and accompanying English language podcast Cold Front provides one possible lead pointing towards Russia's involvement. Nord Stream: Report puts Russian navy ships near pipeline blast site 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z "I went based off the English language," they told Variety. Jodie Comer and Jessica Chastain nominated for Tony award 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z |
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