#English

1/ I'm pinning this in response to two private messages from two men telling me that I'm "encouraging" racism in my tweet about the misrepresentation of Britain's past in television
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Today I watched the evidence given to @SP_Justice on Tuesday on behalf of @Lawscot and @FacultyScot on the Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Bill. Lots of really good points from
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Hey #mfltwitterati!There are lots of debates about next year & what schools' priorities should be. In the longer term, if MFL is ever to grow again we need to know
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ok i just discovered. ive been pronouncing "tirade" wrong...ive been pronouncing it "tee-rahd" instead of "tie-raid"........https://twitter.com/OrdinaryXtreme/status/1158011211822325763 i found another example
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Great initiative. I am First-Gen; attended same high school as @PMoserEcon in the deep countryside; my dad left school at age 14, my mum at age 16; dad worked for
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A crack guide to anti-Gaelic trolls: 1. The Deeply Unloved 100% FYOOMIN. This is your base level vanilla troll. Inhabits the Scotsman comments section. Externalises their inner pain by ranting
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This podcast features the denigration of the woman who spoke to Joe Duffy about the need for plain English on cervical screening campaigns. She is supportive of inclusion language but
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In this thread, I'll live tweet some noteworthy points from"Worth the Risk: Decoding and Decentering Whiteness in English Language Teaching."An @iatefl talk by @JPBGerald! .@JPBGerald: There's a growing literature on
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I have a story about my favorite roleplaying game.My favorite roleplaying game is Dulce et Decorum by Troels Ken Pedersen.I've played it only once, at Fastaval 2013. CW: English WWI
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Word-Specific Phenomena in the Realization of Vowel Categories. This LabPhon satellite workshop was postponed due to Covid-19. Talks are now downloadable, with Q&A and discussion held via Zoom next week.Registration
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n/m I'm not done.been thinking about global medieval studies and sources and wondering how fast we can get better nuance in our debates.and I'm about to dig myself a proper
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Today's tables are massively impacted by the late addition today of results from earlier this weekToday's 7 day totals are somewhat overstated due to yesterday's late addition of results from
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I will not comment on whether Republic TV has manipulated ratings or not, but I will say that it is nothing new. TV ratings have been manipulated well before Republic
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A thread to prove why namjoon is the best leader and nicest human being ever: He chose bangtan over his solo career without hesitation He wants to comfort people with
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Many varying etymologies of Yr Wyddfa ("Snowdon") and Eryri ("Snowdonia" - itself a faux-Latin Victorian coinage) floating about here. So! here's the most definitive explanation I can muster for the
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my timeline in the past 3 days be like translation for anyone who need it"ngga" -> read as "ng-ga", Indonesian (slang) for "No"λ‚΄κ°€" -> "naega", Korean for "I""ι‚£δΈͺ"
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