#English

Dear Nicola SturgeonHere are some people who may be sympathetic to Indy and/or SNP voters. You may wish to reach out to them:Parents of exam-age children who live in so-called
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The "catching away of all believers" is the rapture. While the actual word rapture does not appear in the scriptures, we do have multiple occurrence of the words "caught up"
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Crypto is post-fintech - borders no longer matter.Trad fintech is constrained by laws and regs, going to a new market requires new legal expertise. Thus most in fintech think of
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Tonight I'm going to be livetweeting @jessgrieser's talk on Linguistic Diversity in the Classroom. Linguistic diversity is a bedrock assumption for #ungrading, so I'm looking forward to it! Starts with
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Ignorance is a common theme with Premier League fans and British pundits. Gary Lineker thought Pelé was a striker Neymar is dismissed as a show pony & inconsistent Foreign footballers
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Ok I guess we are having Thread No. 2 about hyung/hyungie/hyung-ah: This will also cover Jungkook-ie. Here we go But before we go into JK-ie, I want to make this
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New: PM has resolved English local elections should go ahead on May 6 as planned, Telegraph understands.Decision taken by No 10 in recent days, underlining confidence in easing Covid restrictions
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A man, in his thirties, came round to sell us an awning for my garden. He knew his product well technically, did not oversell it, answered every question with knowledge
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Apropos of nothing, a memory popped into my head last night. When I was 13 I went to an all-girls school in Jerusalem. All the students in took English but
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The dumbness of the English crowd.“You can teach everyone in English.”Try enrolling you children in Chinese-medium, teach all their subjects in Chinese? Then tell them they’re stupid if they don’t
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2020 English textbook for children "Perfidious Albion is a term used by some people to describe the British Empire. It is a term that suggests that the British were deceitful
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I have called the story by Credlin racist. It is racist. So was the story by Andrew Bolt. Racist. These stories are racist because they employ race or ethnicity when
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What's pretty much the best-performing major industrial product in China this year?Industrial boilers for coal power plants:https://data.stats.gov.cn/english/tablequery.htm?code=AA0701 Only industrial tractors, primary plastics and &quo
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Yup, spread of literacy + invention of movable type meant language got written down, reproduced easily, and thus by necessity formalized in terms of spelling and grammar. We can still
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THIS. It's going to take a massive push to make it happen. Not just from govt either. It's a cultural change that everyone is going to need to help with.
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FAQ: A note on names in SWBTS! Early readers may have noticed that in the narrative (never the dialogue), Chinese characters are referred to by their surnames, rather than the
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