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“In many cases, the line between a thriller and a crime novel has become too blurred to be useful.”

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According to my parents, I've always liked to tune into the conversations of others. But rather than hope for a snippet of salacious gossip,…

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As dialect began to be collected in the late 19th century, such words as Yorkshire's 'gobslotch' emerged, revealing the burgeoning association between gluttony and…

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I don't intentionally eavesdrop. I'm not looking for salacious gossip, I'm just looking for vocabulary items.

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The notion of 'Queen's English' is usually applied to our pronunciation.

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Slang has different functions: many of the words we use are playful and a lot are tribal - we speak the same way as…

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English has always been a mongrel tongue, snapping up words from every continent its speakers encountered.

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The one thing - apart from assumptions about German - that I have to challenge frequently is people assuming that lexicographers are fierce protectors…

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The character of our language defines us, and dictionaries say as much about us as about the way we speak.

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