Currently, the UN comprises of nearly two hundred countries, sharing some six thousand languages. In order to save the sanity of the member states, currently there are six working languages: Chinese, Spanish, English, Arabic, Russian and French. P...
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...
English tourists are being advised by a travel expert to adopt bizarre accents if they want to be understood by waiters and sales staff abroad. EIF News & Features' Travel Editor Peregrine Trip reckons the traditional method of making yourself...
Harry Redknapp's vocabulary has been looted and left for brown bread by tea leaves during the Tottenham riots. "The toe rags have half inched all my favourite words" said a down in the north and south 'Arry. Bundles of expressions, a collecti...
g.g.cummings, grandson of e.e.cummings, has again been suspended from an internet writer's forum. His 'work' was continually rejected because of it's odd typography, erratic punctuation and fonetic spelling. 'Beat' poet g.g, whose grandfather p...
Carlisle, UK - Local man, David Clarke, 35, recently learned the American vulgarism, "junk." Friends are amazed by his natural ability to pick up and use such an odd American euphemism. "I learnt it from Elizabeth, who is the funniest person o...
In an effort to simplify things for the hard of thinking, the electronics industry, in particular establishments such as Game, Cash Generator, Nintendo, Apple and Currys, already well known for their thoroughly enticing and vomit-inducing "pre-order"...
CALLING ALL ROBERT PATTINSON FANS! WHAT TYPE OF ROBERT PATTINSON FAN ARE YOU? We're celebrating the upcoming release of Robert Pattinson's hot new movie Water For Elephants - in which he stars with Reese Widdershins - by offering RPatz fans the opportunity to win one of the following RPatz-tastico prizes: * an emery stick * a lucky hare's ear * an artist's impression o...
New York - The highly respected Webster's Dictionary has announced it will include the acronym "WTF" in their 2012 edition. "WTF" which stands for "what the fuck"?" or "what the fuck!!!" is now used so commonly by so many Americans about so many t...
The first-ever nano-chip language translators are rolling off the assembly line and into cosmetic surgeons' offices quicker than you can say "Se Habla Espanol?" No longer will it be necessary for those wishing to learn a second or even third language...
The Oxford English Dictionary has announced a new raft of words that have become acceptable for use in every day speech. Demonstrating his ability to use words himself, dictionary editor Professor Pip Datpost said he was "excited, ecstatic, deligh...
The Oxford English dictionary has made the remarkable step of allowing some so-called emoticons into the dictionary complete with full definitions. Emoticons are the punctuation marks that display emotional responses, such as the traditional smile...
The history of writing the spoken word is a scientific discipline all to itself. It is widely agreed that the Egyptians and Chinese writing systems arose together through trade, and gave rise to two independent systems. The Phoenicians carried Egypti...
As the Spoof's foremost reviewer I get to review some cool stuff. This month I was sent three Lingo language packs: German, Italian and Spanish. I would quite like to have learned Chinese, just to find out what the people in the Chinese Chippy were saying about me. I've never been very good at learning languages though. I even with English struggle. Lingo packs come in three parts. These are:...
These days we are always hearing about how all our footballers are earning far too much money and are such terrible role models for children everywhere. So it's always nice when we hear a good news story. This week, Manchester United Superstar W...
BIRMINGHAM - In the face of Cameron's cultural directive, Big Society, a group of pupils at a local secondary school have taken charge of thier class. Big Society is allowing volunteers to run certain things that local councils or the government w...
New York, NY - United Nations Gibberologist today hailed the passage of a draft resolution celebrating the global renaissance of the ancient Gibberish language, thus rendering human communication and understanding more difficult. "Historically," s...
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