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Jay Hulme
JayHulmePoet
Getting horribly reminded of the time my whole year group got E's in our AS English Lit exams and the teachers requested the papers back and were like "there's literally
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Toque
gaf_young
Which tweet do you think the wannabe de facto first minister of England sent out on St George's Day? I have no problem with @Keir_Starmer wishing Muslims a blessed Ramadan.
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Jelena O'Reilly
phdmentalhealth
The difficulty of learning and using English articles (a/an, the) came up in a Twitter conversation yesterday, so considering I did a PhD on this I’ll do a thread explaining
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Nadika நாடியா
NadjaNadika
My great grandfather apparently knew 15 languages and translated from English to Tamil, from Tamil to English and Sanskrit, and Sanskrit to English. My grandfather was all about English
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rebecca 🐞
oddfreaks
i hate how we can’t talk about Korean rappers against western rappers without it being seen as a joke because they are lumped in with kpop. some of these rappers
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Helen Pluckrose has returned to Hermit Mode
HPluckrose
Right into the modern period, there was significant debate about whether literature or poetry could even be written in English because it was such a barbaric and unmusical language. Chaucer
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QJ Wong
qjwong
Online Judge Seminar and English understanding problem for Japanese judges:①Please try. Thank you for trying. This will give you a chance to improve & practice listening in English. At home
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andreaisahomo
so i’ve come to the conclusion that everything i’ve ever liked doing i’m bad at.soccer: i played for 11 years and never got good- i got slightly better in the
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Ben Cobley
bencobley
Dipping back into Orwell's The Lion and the Unicorn, his essay on England written at the start of WWII. There is gold on every page, in every paragraph even. It's
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Imaan Sheikh
sheikhimaan
what's the english word for "dheet"? not "stubborn" i want something more accurate that especially captures the the part where dheet people are totally content with their dhitaai.I called omar
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𝙍𝙀𝙎𝙋𝙀𝘾𝙏 𝙀𝙉𝙏𝙃𝙐𝙎𝙄𝘼𝙎𝙏 ⁷
taesjuulpods
you’ve probably seen this list floating around the tl, lets talk about it. so it’s a list of words that are supposedly AAVE. (you’ll see why it’s supposedly later) to
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Danny Bate
DannyBate4
One interesting sound change in Old Latin was the change of /dw/ into /b/.For example, bellum 'war' (from which English gets 'bellicose' and 'belligerent') was once duellom.However, duellom did survive
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Jim O'Neill
neilojim1972
OTD 1600 report of Florence McCarthy ambush of English in Cork. Irish allowed scouts to pass but crown cavalry spotted hidden Irish 'by the sun shining off their steel helmets.
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Dr Iain MacInnes
IainMacInnesUHI
#OTD in 1338, the sheriff of Cumberland was ordered to arrest all those who took victuals and other goods across the border into Scotland. Their goods, horses, cows, etc, were
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Nella Vargas-Barbosa
echem_nella
I truly see/have experienced the challenges here, but how are we going to establish quality control of translations and preventing publishing in other languages for the sake of increasing the
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Caroline O'Donoghue
Czaroline
Genuine question: when I respond to emails, I don't like dawdling around with 'hope you're well' / 'happy Friday'/ 'these trying times' etc. If I'm already in frequent contact with
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