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Five common English words we don’t know the origins of – including ‘boy’ and ‘dog’
The Conversation via Yahoo News UK· 3 days ago“Bird” sounds Germanic, but doesn’t have cognates in any other Germanic language. It can be found in...
Alexander McCall Smith: Precious Ramotswe would be happy about my knighthood
The Irish News· 5 days agoSir Alexander is the creator of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and he has written and...
How has the spelling bee become cool?
The Independent· 2 hours agoLET’S UNPACK THAT: How the American Revolution led to formal spelling contests – and the spelling bee started a revolution of its own, one that even AI...
How Nigel Farage's Reform UK Impacted the British Elections
Time via Yahoo News UK· 1 day agoReform’s success comes despite... Sunak, who is of Indian origin, a racial slur, forcing Sunak to...
General election 2024: Find out more about the candidates standing in Dwyfor Meirionnydd
Wales Online via Yahoo News UK· 4 days agoIt is gobsmackingly unjust that we’re denied £4 billion of extra funding simply because the HS2 fast...
'I've lived in UK long enough to see 4 prime ministers but I still can't vote for the next one'
My London via Yahoo News UK· 4 days agoWe met people who lived in a...they felt relaxed also because they knew that I could speak English."...
How Breton folktales from France connect to traditional Irish folklore
The Conversation via Yahoo News UK· 3 days agoIn Brittany in north-west France, the oral narrative tradition was enriched by two languages, just...
New UK Prime Minister Starmer says controversial Rwanda deportation plan is 'dead and buried'
Associated Press via Yahoo News UK· 19 hours agoBritish Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Saturday that he is scrapping his predecessor's...
Right on Q – Paul Clements on a capital letter
The Irish Times· 6 days agoOne hundred and fifty years ago the now familiar Qwerty keyboard was patented by the American politician and inventor Christopher Sholes. Effectively a...
South Asian cinema might be able to save Hollywood's action film crisis
Metro· 2 days agoBut there seems to have been yet another shift as rich new.... The discourse-sparking revenge film,...