Vax has been chosen as the word of the year by lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Words related to vaccines have spiked in frequency in 2021 due to Covid, with double-vaxxed, unvaxxed and a...
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Canada's Quebec province has denied immigrant status to a French citizen because she was unable to demonstrate adequate French-language proficiency. Quebec rejected Emilie Dubois' application apparently because part of her university thesis ...
A US university professor has been removed as director of a graduate programme, amid a furore over an email she sent urging students not to speak Chinese. Megan Neely, an assistant professor at Duke University in North Carolina, said in an e...
There can be few days more nerve-wracking than your own wedding, and few things as hard to express as the emotions that you might feel in the countdown. When it was Olympic and Wimbledon tennis champion Andy Murray’s big day, however, he manage...
What do you call the colorful topping you put on your ice cream？ Jimmies or Sprinkles? ...
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A woman who called 911 to report a nearby crime was killed by a US police officer last weekend. The circumstances surrounding her death are still unclear. The fatal shooting of Justine Ruszczyk, a dual Australian-US national who had settled in Minne...
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By Tim Bowen Tim Bowen again reflects on the substantial damage sustained in the UK’s recent riots as inspiration for some collocations. If a lot of damage is caused, it can be described as considerable, ext...
By Tim Bowen Type: Article Have you ever experienced a slip of the tongue or set tongues wagging? Tim Bowen articulates his thoughts on some idioms. If something is easy to pronounce, it can be said to trip of...
http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/english-suffers-collateral-damage Posted by Michael Rundell on September 11, 2011 Kerry Maxwell’s next BuzzWord article will be discussing the term&n...
How to improve your communication skills by speaking better English? Practice makes perfect, especially when you want to improve your communication skills. You can find help to polish(润色) your English in a host of(一大群) environments, and a wide a...
Black Friday (shopping) Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States, where it is the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season. Since Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States, Bl...
"The First Thanksgiving", painted by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863–1930).Thanksgiving is a holiday in the USA when people give thanks. It is celebrated every year on the fourth Thursday of November. ...