#English

I feel a need to tweet something for people to use when confronted by angry anti-EU British people . The "EU " is the Irish person sold you a Guinness
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Your word of the day is:AMPERSANDn.An ampersand is the logogram '&' and represents the conjunction 'and'. It originated as a ligature (a character consisting of two or more joined letters)
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A threadTW:Ableism Ableism is so normalized in society that people don't realize that they're using it everyday. I'm going to list some examples below. Calling someone a narcissist or diagnosing
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1. As a result of settler colonialism, the English language has existed in North America for four centuries, roughly the same amount of time 閩南語 (Hokkien or Minnan/Southern Min Language),
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Scotland is in the grip of a criminal, corrupt entity. The SNP have corrupted the very core of devolved power. They’ve corrupted our police and legal system. This is a
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Thoughts on teaching grammar: 1. A lot of the animus towards teaching grammar seems to come from two radically different views of English language as a subject: If you view
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can we talk about how stan twt has been americanized to the point that we all tweet in english, we introduce ourselves on groupchats and people from the us say
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DYSLEXIC TEACHERSI don’t know who needs to hear this, but I’m getting a LOT of DMs from people, particularly trainees, who are worried that their SEND will be a problem
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I'm going to talk some about vernacular English and its place in J-E media translations, particularly those set in modern or near-modern settings.Vernacular language is a translator's most powerful tool
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VERY IMPORTANT THREAD! WE ARE PLANNING TO START OUR OWN POLITICIAL PARTY - TO APPEAL TO ENGLISH VOTERS ON ENGLISH ISSUES ONLY.WOULD YOU BE PREPARED TO SUPPORT US. PLEASE VIEW
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Facts about Manchester City that non city fans probably don't know 1 – Manchester City hold the record for highest home attendance by an English club. City packed 84,569 fans
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Latest REACT figures show that levels of activity and hence levels of infection rose AFTER, and not DURING Christmas.They suggest that the problem lies less with people socialising than working,
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This Emmanuella Lambropoulos scandal fascinates me. A Liberal MP asks the Official Languages Commissioner about issues affecting the English-speaking minority in Quebec, and expresses skepticism about the reported decline of
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Let’s get English Lit trending for all the right reasons ⁦@EngSharedFuture⁩ ⁦@EnglishAssoc⁩ ⁦@UnivEnglish⁩! A degree in literature can help you to solve large scale human problems through encouraging you to
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This Julian Coman Observer piece calls on the English left to engage with English identity, which I welcome as it is overdue. But a foundational premise of the piece -
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Why is English a *barrier* to India's development? A summary:Today and the future is of technology. Technology development requires technical understanding, logic and thinking skills. World-over people learn and use
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