Neglected new words to be captured in Harvard’s digital ‘fossil record’
Language development
In praise of innit
Teen slang is winding people up again. It may not work in a merchant bank but it’s just another example of language’s restless evolution.
007 parachutes into pointless language struggle
Former dashing secret agent becomes whingeing old git in another unwinnable battle against language development.
The Downing Street verb: “To Kofi”
You might not have been Tangoed, but have you been Kofied?
Texting slang improves literacy – official (again)
The publication today of new research claiming that child text addicts have high levels of literacy may surprise some parents. But not those who read the report last year, or the year before that, or the year before that.
Hopes for the Cornish language
New language lessons for Cornish toddlers begin this month
Bad language in Scotland
You almost certainly know three words of the Scots language. But 85 per cent of Scottish people claim to use much more of the language when socialising
The end of the church – lost in translation
The Times letter that tells why the church gave way to a congregation