• Books for translators, English language

    Posted on November 16th, 2009

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    Book: British English A to Zed

    Book: British English A to Zed

    An excellent resource for British versus American English. British English A to Zed is a comprehensive guide to everyday English spoken on the other side of the Atlantic. General readers and language lovers alike will have immediate access to an alphabetical listing of more than 5,500 “Briticisms” and their correlating “Americanisms” in this fully revised and updated volume. Featured in this edition are several hundred new entries; lively discussions of British language, pronunciation, punctuation, style, usage, and culture; and special sections on units of measure, automotive terms, cricket terms, and more. For readers, travelers, and Anglophiles everywhere, this entertaining and authoritative resource is a cultural delight.

  • Dictionaries, English language

    Posted on July 14th, 2009

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    Oxford Collocations Dictionary (2nd edition)

    Oxford Collocations Dictionary (2nd edition)

    Author: Colin McIntosh (Editor), Ben Francis (Editor), Richard Poole (Editor)
    Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Pap/Cdr Ne edition (May 5, 2009)
    ISBN-10: 0194325385
    The dictionary that helps students write and speak natural-sounding English, now in a new edition with CD-ROM.
    Which words usually go together? This dictionary shows you the common word combinations (collocations) that are [...]

  • English language, Linguistics

    Posted on September 30th, 2005

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    English words are not always that "English"

    In an article published in the Financial Express author Christopher Caldwell explains why English is “the international language of choice” and how it is “creeping into the very fabric of all other languages”.
    The dominance of the English language, especially when it comes to business, politics or new technologies, cannot be denied neither do we have [...]

  • English language

    Posted on September 27th, 2005

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    Avoiding a US-centric Writing Style

    Laurie Kamerer
    A bank in China recently purchased 400 copies of a software package from Cisco Systems, Inc. Neither the software nor the associated documentation had been localized, but bank management was not worried since “everyone speaks English.” Unfortunately, the bank’s personnel did not speak the long-winded, US-centric brand of English that appeared in the online [...]

  • English language, Linguistics

    Posted on September 12th, 2005

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    English to marginalize European Languages

    ‘Europe’s language problem is well on its way to solving itself.’ writes Abram de Swaan in an article published in the Daily Times. De Swaan is a distinguished research professor at the University of Amsterdam, chairman of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, director of the Academia Europea de Yuste, and author of Words [...]

  • English language, Linguistics

    Posted on August 17th, 2005

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    New Webster’s edition reflects increasing interest in medicine

    After last week’s release of the Oxford English Dictionary’s latest edition its American pendant is now also available in an updated version. The fourth edition in the 2005 copyright version of Webster’s New World College Dictionary includes nearly 90 new words and expressions.
    The yearly copyrighted update includes terms that heretofore might have fallen into categories [...]

  • English language

    Posted on July 22nd, 2005

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    English losing ground on the net, Chinese on the rise

    According to online statistics compiled from 2004-data English remains to be the major language of the web, although its predominance is diminishing. With 35.8% English has lost its ultimate status as the ‘web-language’ that is still had a couple of years ago. Spanish which used to be second ranked in the languages by content now [...]

  • English language

    Posted on June 6th, 2005

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    VOCABULARY POWER

    This is a wonderful resource for writing in English
    VOCABULARY POWER

  • English language

    Posted on June 6th, 2005

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    Nice word: floccinaucinihilipilification

    floccinaucinihilipilification
    n. chiefly humorous
    the act of contemptuously dismissing something or of treating something as worthless