The word of 2012...

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Joey Barton victim of zee "speech accommodation"?

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What is a "murmuration"?

Here is a clue...

Famous last words...

Huffington Post article

The 1,000,000th word of the English language...

 Global language monitor

Britain in 12 words...

Humblebrag!

Very troll...

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Olympian spelling mistake!

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Topsy-turvy gobbledeegook

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Gibberish?

Bringing home the bacon!

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Hobson-Jobson, pukka dictionary of the very many words from India one finds in the English language

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Listen to the BBC Radio 4 programme!

What the dickens!

Learn dickensian words with Auntie Beeb!

Preserving linguistic and cultural diversity...

 Endangered languages Web site

Cockney lingo on the skids? I blame the custard and jelly!

Telegraph article: Londoners baffled by Cockney rhyming slang

Slang's nang!

 

The Independent review of THE LIFE OF SLANG by Julie Coleman

Free speech, but not in public!

 BBC article

21st of March is World Poetry Day!

 United Nations Web site for World Poetry Day

I do not give a straw about words such as "foccinaucinihilipilification"!

 

The longest word in English?

Mandarin, language of the future?

 Article from BBC

What the Dickens! Happy 200th birthday Charles!

 

Wikipedia article on Charles Dickens

Mind reading...

 

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Are the French and German languages sexist?

English is a genderless language, but not always gender-neutral...

 

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Gutenburg bible and Isaac Newton's student writings... Books that changed the world!

Gutenburg the great

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Newton by Blake

Google quicker than magic!

 Where's Internet?!

 

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A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.

2012

 

BBC learning English crossword new year