ATLANTA, GA- After a long, six month research period it was discovered that conversate is not a word.
This study comes from 40 year old, Geoffrey Bentine, who while in a conversation with a friend said, "Can we conversate later?" In turn his frie...
With the legal challenge over this years English examinations expected to be pushed through with some urgance, many are asking if a GCSE in English truly has any affect on the quality of articles being written by currant journalists. If the English...
Professor Finn L. Straw is threatening to blow up one of the BBC's broadcasting masts if his demands are not met. The drama began last night as this publication went to press. His protest concerns the use of the word "them" instead of "those" and the...
For the first time during the European Soccer Championships rival supporters have come together in a friendly manner, united by a common thread and not hurled insults and abuse at each other.
In a refreshing change, English and French fans came to...
A friend told me about a week or so before we left that he couldn't quite believe it was actually happening and weren't we concerned about racism.
I recall frowning with genuine confusion. It wasn't as though John had ever been one to over-dramatise, that always fell to his wife, Lucy, and even as we had this conversation, she was frantically talking to her mother, advising her where the 'Meni...
The English language is to receive a massive overhaul in 2013, say experts from the Guild Of Dictionary Writers.
Spokesmen say that the language has become cluttered and over-complicated in recent years, with many new words being added and spellin...
The popular global image of Englishmen being shaven headed beer swilling brutes, shirtless in sub-zero temperatures, snarling, shouting a lot, and making rude remarks accompanied by obscene gestures to passing ladies, fighting in lumps, and having kn...
For several centuries English has been steadily losing the letter modifiers that help in their pronunciation of words. Naive is often written without the umlaut, facade has lost it's cedilla, role has been stripped of it's circumflex and cliche is qu...
The word manganese has been voted the U.K's favourite word, by readers of Word Monthly magazine, Britain's premier source for all word related information.
The word, acclaimed for it's ease of slipping off the tongue, and almost happy pronunciat...
Sum shocking noo stats out today reveel that a staggring 76% of Britons teechers are bearly litrit and shud not be teechin fings lyke Hinglish in skoolz coz their breedinge kids wot will ave no ope of eva postin comrehencable messgs on intrnet sytes.
The current 250 year licence granted to the USA to use English as its official language is due to expire at the end of January 2011. The licence was originally granted by King George III and intended as a stop-gap till the colony (as it was then) dec...
In an recent report by the Society for the Promotion of English Language Humor it was revealed that most of the world's English speakers don't find English humor funny. The most cited reason was "Humor Subject Matter Unintelligible" with "Vulgar and...
The English today confounded the world by admitting that the English what they talk doesn't quite Thomas O'Malley wiv the English like wot the rest of the world speaks coz it's not proper. And that. Innit.
The debate was sparked by an internet blo...
Read this hypothetical discussion between Bradley and Leavis and make notes on their differences in opinion. Will be reporting back in 20 mins.
bradmeister: lol @ iago pwning the Moor
leavis.fr.69: othello failed :D
bradmeister: yh but that was serious ownage
leavis.fr.69: nt really...othello was a n00b
bradmeister: othello is a chuck norris of poetry
leavis.fr.69: othello thinks...
At last the Government have come out with yet another stupid scam to curb the number of immigrants entering Britain. Now immigrants will have to take - and pass - an English literacy test.
This seems to this writer to be cruel and unusual punish...
A modest proposal - to not only teach Americans the history of the English language, but to also teach Americans how to spell its words correctly rather than dropping letters out of words to save space, and misspelling words like primary school children do.
There is nothing troublesome about users of the English language spelling it correctly, and if American children are taught to misspell the...
Fantastic news emerging from the UK confirms that Turkish fast food tycoon Ali Bullo will be selling the very first Full English Breakfast Pizza from all of his outlets, starting tomorrow.
Foodies, chefs, greasy-spoon proprietors and Italians have...
For some people, the UK and the USA share a common language, but for other observers there are two distinctly seperate languages - 'English' and 'American English'
The rift between the two camps was never more apparent than yesterday in New York C...