Tag Archives: English Language

WATCH: Dame Judi is Most Definitely ‘Dench’

By Paul Hechinger | Posted on March 9th, 2013

Judi Dench on 'The Graham Norton Show' (BBC America)

It’s not enough that Judi Dench is one of Britain’s leading actresses, or that she’s won gazillions of screen and stage awards, or that she’s been knighted. Her brilliance is now being etched into the English language ...

Ten British English Words That Are Surprisingly Uncommon In The U.S.

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on February 27th, 2013

A training shoe, or trainer. Not to be used for sneaking.

Sometimes, in order to write about something, you have to go on a little voyage of discovery. So, having decided to research some words that are so common to British English it would hard to summon them without a reference point, but ...

Ten Commonly-Misused Expressions From British English

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on February 14th, 2013

Language is a liquid constant. Its only job is to communicate and, really, so long as it does this reasonably efficaciously, none of us have any reason to complain about the rights and wrongs of other people’s communication.

The British Are Invading (Again) And This Time They Want Their Language Back

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on September 27th, 2012

Thanks largely to the influence of TV, music, cinema and now the internet, the general assumption among a certain (and rather huffy) segment of the British population is that the English language is becoming swamped with Americanisms, ...

Technology 2 – English Language O

By Paul Hechinger | Posted on October 27th, 2011

Apple has heavily touted its iPhone 4S’s new voice recognition feature known as Siri, which is supposed to understand what you say to it and actually answer back using words.