If You Spam Digg, Learn English
Gaming Digg.com has gone international. Or perhaps just retarded, as traffic-minded spammers shuffle in with broken English and a generally…
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English Premier League Sues YouTube, Google
YouTube was already being sued by a proverbial giant in the form of Viacom. Now some flesh-and-blood tough guys want…
Al Jazeera Launches English Service
Arab TV network Al Jazeera launched an English-language service yesterday that, inevitably, attracted criticisms in the US and elsewhere where…
The Butchering of the English Language
George Orwell was a great writer. I recently came across a cool paper he wrote in 1946 titled Politics and…
Domesday – 900 Years of English History Online
I'd bet that few people haven't heard of the Domesday Book, the survey of England commissioned in 1085 by William…
Google Musical Opens; English Books Close
It's official. Google geek-chic has become so sexy they've made a musical tribute. Google: The Musical opens next week inMinnesota?…
French and English Not Getting Along: Imagine That
William of Normandy and Harold Godwinson failed to reach an agreement today no that's not it. Perhaps, the Duke of…
The Globalization of English
Newsweek has an excellent feature article in the 7 March issue (this week) of its international edition on how the…
APOSTROPHES EXPLAINED
According to last week's newsletter, whenever a Southerner says "Y'all watch this," get out of the way because those are…
AND A FINAL WORD ON APOSTROPHES…
Following on from the previous two articles, I now want to look at another common difficulty with the apostrophe -…
