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Mrs Crisell
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Teacher of A Level English Language, GCSE and KS3
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How Do You Do, Fellow Kids: Gen Alpha Slang
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Skibidi, Mog & More: Gen Alpha Slang
Six-Seven! Skibidi!! Mog!!!
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September 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Could this be the answer? Dave Wilton on one of slang’s great conundrums: ‘the whole nine yards’ — wordorigins-org.ghost.io/whole-nine-y...
whole nine yards
Few phrases have as many tales attached to their origin as does the whole nine yards, which has spawned a raft of popular etymologies, all of them wrong. The phrase doesn’t have one particular origin,...
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September 19, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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“I'm down for it" means "I'm up for it.”

Sure, why not.
September 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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These are your words of the week

crucible
empathy
hate speech
genocide
preempt
antifa
lulu
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The Words of the Week - Sept. 19
Dictionary lookups from the UN, the White House press pool, and the syllabus
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September 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Like many, I grew up with Woman’s Hour, so it was a special delight to chat with Anita Rani on Friday about Words for Life. It also made the weekend round-up if you fancy a listen here.

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Woman's Hour - Weekend Woman’s Hour: Baroness Hale, Race Across the World, Cryptic pregnancy, Patricia Lockwood, Sudanese women, Susie Dent - BBC Sounds
The first female president of the Supreme Court.
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September 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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September 20, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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In the age of English-language dominance and machine translation, demand for other languages in the workplace is collapsing. Very few job ads request French, hardly anyone learns Mandarin, etc. Me on how languages work at work, and when minor ones matter on.ft.com/44zDTIj
AI is reinforcing the dominance of English in the workplace
[FREE TO READ] Technology will make the world’s most spoken language more valuable, but speaking a more obscure one has advantages
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July 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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I wonder what this means for poetry — both in English, and in every other language in the world. But seriously, these three grafs knocked me over
With English dominating in international settings, investing time learning other languages may no longer be worth it. I spent 10 years studying German but most Germans I meet now are in effect bilinguals who will not let me speak their native language. When non-natives speak English, it can give native speakers the upper hand - for instance in negotiations, or in public speaking. The development of generative AI may mean that only excellence in a language is useful - there may no longer be much point in just having a few words and phrases, the kind of level to which apps such as Duolingo take most learners. The upshot is a two-tier labour market in which top jobs with international contact are reserved for a fluent English-speaking elite. A specialist at an international insurer observes: "People who can't communicate well in English drift off into local activities. They become less relevant."
July 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM