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www.sciencealert.com/speaking-mul...
Speaking Multiple Languages May Slow Brain Aging, Study Suggests
People are living longer than ever around the world.
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December 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages
The milestone is one of a number of new measures taking effect on St Andrew's Day from the Scottish Languages Act.
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December 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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‘Mansplaining’ was once a contender for word of the year. Here’s why we should stop using it
‘Rage bait’ is Oxford word of the year in 2025. But I think we should be able to decommission words that have brought more trouble than they’re worth, starting with the 2015 runner-up, writes Zoe Will...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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I Made an AI Speak Every Century of English—It Ended With a Message From the Year 15,000 - Decrypt share.google/yPPR7OSUOzPi...
I Made an AI Speak Every Century of English—It Ended With a Message From the Year 15,000 - Decrypt
I pushed a chatbot through several millennia of linguistic evolution. An AI from the year 5000 lectured me about pronouns.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Language Emerged From Many Roots, Not Just One - Neuroscience News
A new framework argues that human language did not arise from a single evolutionary leap but from the convergence of many biological abilities and cultural processes.
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November 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Multilinguism in Ireland
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Ireland remains locked into the anglophone world. Will we ever make the multilingual leap?
Language specialists doubt whether existing educational policies can deliver on State’s linguistic competence deficit
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November 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Great article
www.thecollector.com/french-lingu...
What Made French Lingua Franca for Over Three Centuries? | TheCollector
Today, English is the world's primary language. Yet for almost three centuries, French was the world's dominant lingua franca. Let's see why.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-...

Lots of prescriptivist discourses to look at here!
How to save the King’s English
When a survey of 10,000 teachers revealed this month that Britain’s primary school pupils are increasingly relying on Americanisms (the Times front page declared ‘Trash-talking children are sounding l...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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The rise of the ‘performative male:’ How young men are experimenting with masculinity online share.google/kJnCjRA2L9pe...
The rise of the ‘performative male:’ How young men are experimenting with masculinity online
Gen Z’s ‘performative male’ trend is both mocked and embraced because it exposes deep cultural contradictions around what we expect of masculinity today.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Great article and live link to to the study!

Enduring patterns in world's languages: One-third of grammatical 'universals' stand up to rigorous testing phys.org/news/2025-11...
Enduring patterns in world's languages: One-third of grammatical 'universals' stand up to rigorous testing
Despite the vast diversity of human languages, specific grammatical patterns appear again and again. A new study reveals that around a third of the long-proposed "linguistic universals"—patterns thoug...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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www.thetimes.com/uk/social-me...
Parasocial is the word of a year led by influencers and chatbots
Cambridge Dictionaries’ word of the year describes the one-sided relationship fans have with celebrities, experts on social media and artificial intelligence
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November 18, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Hopes of Irish language revival in public life as Catherine Connolly takes office
Advocates say presidency could be ‘transformative moment’ for Ireland after Gaelic’s cultural breakthroughs
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November 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Speaking more than one language could keep old age at bay
The more languages you speak, the less likely you are to experience ‘accelerated ageing’, according to the largest study of its kind
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November 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Dictionary.com selected “six-seven” as word of the year...

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‘6 7’ is Dictionary’s word of the year. What does it say about society?
Why are kids shouting 6 7 and where did the slang term come from?
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November 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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What the Romans did for the English language
Nearly 60 per cent of our modern English vocabulary traces its roots and origins back thousands of years to Ancient Rome
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November 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Belfast Irish Language Festival
'Speaking Irish is everything' - Belfast hosts thousands for language festival www.bbc.com/news/article...
Oireachtas na Samhna: 'The Irish language is everything to me'
Thousands from across the island and beyond came together in Belfast for Oireachtas na Samhna, Ireland's oldest Irish language gathering.
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November 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Orwell in Welsh
Source: BBC
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George Orwell classics Animal Farm and 1984 translated into Welsh
Animal Farm and 1984 will both be published in Welsh for the first time.
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November 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Exclamation marks! Why do women use them three times as much as men?
It’s the punctuation that can make you seem warmer and more agreeable – but also much more compliant and lacking in analytical thinking
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October 30, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Excellent article on swearing specificity in different languages:

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Italian blasphemy and German ingenuity: how swear words differ around the world
Once dismissed as a sign of low intelligence, researchers now argue the ‘power’ of taboo words has been overlooked
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October 21, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Welsh accent, stereotypes and perception:

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Traitors' Charlotte and Joanna Page compare Welsh accents
The former Traitors contestant, who famously put on a fake Welsh accent, meets Gavin & Stacey star Joanna Page.
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October 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Great article on the notion of "language ownership":

No, the Irish language does not ‘belong to us all’. Stop insisting that it does – The Irish Times share.google/JFzSxfbnQaCf...

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Newton Emerson: No, the Irish language does not ‘belong to us all’. Stop insisting it does
A row over Irish language signs in a leafy part of east Belfast taps into deeper divisions
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October 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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This one's interesting about accent attitudes, 'accent recovery' and it even features @christianilbury.bsky.social!
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October 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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A nice one for #EnglishLanguage A level #accents and #diversity @englangblog.bsky.social

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'Why I speak with a Yorkshire accent despite being born deaf'
Gladiators star Jodie Ounsley says it is one of the questions she gets asked the most.
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October 8, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Interesting one for Lang Diversity, with nods to gender, social groups, technology, region and class. Still not sure about how she said 'Magic Stars' but there you go...
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September 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Surzhyk: why Ukrainians are increasingly speaking a hybrid language that used to be a marker of rural backwardness
Once reviled as a ‘humiliating’ Russified form of the language, now Surzhyk is emerging as a tool for Russian speakers to identify as Ukrainians.
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September 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM