Word roots and routes: time and tide
Next in a series of posts exploring some of the ‘roots’ and ‘routes’ of English vocabulary. Time and tide are another pair of words, of Latin and Germanic origin respectively, whose meanings have taken...
View ArticleDon’t Wake Her, She’s Learning: 3 Recent Studies Reinforce Importance of...
I’ve never been a great sleeper. Now I have a 3-year old who seems to have inherited that trait. As a result, I’ve become a bit obsessed lately with both my own sleep and hers and that obsession has...
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Obamacare's Spanish-language Web site is 'written in Spanglish' - Washington...
Washington Post (blog)Obamacare's Spanish-language Web site is 'written in Spanglish'Washington Post (blog)HealthCare.gov's October 1st launch was a disaster. But at least it was a punctual disaster....
View ArticleThe Language of Babel.
I continue to find thought-provoking nuggets in How to Read the Bible (see this post); this passage in the “Tower of Babel” chapter makes an obvious point that had never occurred to me: As with the...
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Parents accidentally confuse children's names more often when names sound alike
Psychology researchers find parents set themselves up for speech errors when they give their children similar-sounding names.
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UP boy 'looks like' terrorist, frisked thrice - Times of India
UP boy 'looks like' terrorist, frisked thriceTimes of IndiaZahid, who hails from Haryana, did his schooling from madrassa board in Jaunpur and is currently pursuing BA with Arabic, Linguistics and Urdu...
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Students praise SOU's new Honors College - Mail Tribune
Students praise SOU's new Honors CollegeMail TribuneThe cohort's first honors course — a three-part general education class on linguistics — has allowed the students to interact academically and get to...
View ArticlePhrasal Verb Pay Off
Nossa dica hoje é sobre o phrasal verb pay off. Então, continue lendo para aprender alguns dos usos mais comuns desse pequeno phrasal verb em inglês. Ah! Caso você ainda tenha dúvidas sobre phrasal...
View ArticleEd. Dept. Falling Short in Support of English-Learners, Report Says
The BUENO National Policy Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder, says education policies favored by the Obama administration have not been beneficial to English-language learners.
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First Saudi Sign Language Dictionary launched - Arab News
First Saudi Sign Language Dictionary launchedArab NewsThe Saudi Association for Hearing Impairment has launched the first Saudi Sign Language Dictionary on occasion of the first anniversary of...
View ArticleQuantity Time is Quality Time
An adult isn’t just a big cell. A big zygote. Adding small, imperceptible changes (at the time) produces a big change at the end. Who you are now is not who you will be; who you are now is not even...
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Notes from ¿Qué tal? - Describing
Unequal Comparisons Equal Comparisons with adjectives or adverbs más/menos ____ que tan ____ como with nouns más/menos ____ que tanto/a/os/as ____ como with verbs ____...
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5 Online Tools for Keeping up with Your 2014 Language Learning Resolutions
A guest article by Katie Collom of LanguageTrainers.com Ideas for Learning a New Language this Year I’m a bit of a language junky which means that I love taking classes to learn the basics of a...
View ArticleIntroducing Mandarin Companion
Ever since founding AllSet Learning in 2010, we’ve been steadily adding new products and expanding our mini-empire of resources. The Chinese Grammar Wiki was one of our most significant additions (and...
View ArticleThe Future of Flight- The Age of Super Hubs
The success story of globalization is inseparably linked to the success story of the airplane. It is only through the mercurial rise of the airplane as the world’s foremost mode of transportation that...
View Article1/14/14 - entrepot
1. A temporary storehouse or group of storehouses for goods. 2. A distribution center, a place where goods are shipped or otherwise brought for distribution elsewhere, generally duty- free.
View ArticleWords in the News: Swearing
Children as young as 15 are to be allowed to watch films filled with obscene language. Swear words are now so ‘commonplace’ among teenagers that age ratings will be relaxed, censors said yesterday....
View ArticleReuters Video: Affair allegations threaten to overshadow Hollande's New...
French President François Hollande's New Year's address risks being overshadowed by allegations of a love affair, although the French public appears indifferent to scandal. Deborah Lutterbeck reports....
View ArticleWord of the day: Polio / Poliomyelitis
Yesterday the WHO announced that polio had been eradicated in India. This is a further victory in the fight against the inflammation of the grey material of the spinal cord that became one of the most...
View ArticleCartoon: Britain's Obesity Crisis
BACKGROUND Estimates that half the UK population will be obese by 2050 "underestimate" the problem, a report has claimed. The National Obesity Forum said Britain was in danger of surpassing the...
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