The 2019 word of the year
The 2019 word of the year has recently been announced by Collins Dictionary, and this year it is “climate strike”. The dictionary compilers define “climate strike” as “a form of protest in which peopl ...
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A letter from Ellen Jones – Well I never!
On a London Underground train the other day, a small girl made all the surrounding passengers laugh when she announced loudly to her mother “Oops I’ve just done a Donald”. Of course all families have ...
Lost for Words
We have read about the new words that are entering our language and our dictionaries and as life races away and technology brings new ideas and ways of communicating I have been doing some research in ...