Author Archives: Alison Flood
27th February, 2013
Kipling poems discovered by US scholar
london: Kipling scholars are celebrating the publication of lost poems by the author whose exhortations in If to “keep your head when all about you/Are losing theirs and blaming it on you” are regularly voted the nation’s favourite poem
london: Kipling scholars are celebrating the publication of lost poems by the author whose exhortations in If to “keep your head when all about you/Are losing theirs and blaming it on you” are regularly voted the nation’s favourite poem
4th January, 2013
‘Fiscal cliff’ tops list of language abuses
HOURS after America stepped back from the edge of the fiscal cliff, the phrase has been named as one of the worst cases of language abuse of the last year.
HOURS after America stepped back from the edge of the fiscal cliff, the phrase has been named as one of the worst cases of language abuse of the last year.
28th November, 2012
Games editors play
AN eminent former editor of the Oxford English Dictionary covertly deleted thousands of words because of their foreign origins and bizarrely blamed previous editors, according to claims in a book published this week.
AN eminent former editor of the Oxford English Dictionary covertly deleted thousands of words because of their foreign origins and bizarrely blamed previous editors, according to claims in a book published this week.
