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Monday, November 09, 2009 9:28 AM

Windows 7 Terminology in 35 Languages

Following the general distribution release of Windows 7, we made the Windows 7 terminology and UI strings available for 35 languages on the Microsoft Language Portal . This allows any user of Microsoft products to search and discover Windows 7 terms and
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009 11:18 AM

'Whatever' is 'most annoying word'

  Whilst in bed this morning this subject was brought up on Radio 2 and thought I would share here as I thought it was quite humorous “Nearly half of Americans surveyed for a new poll said that "whatever" was the most annoying word that
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009 8:51 AM

Twitter in the Collins English Dictionary

Combining 2 of my interests of language and Twitter comes the news that the words Twitter, Twitterati and Twitterverse   will be added to the next edition of the Collins English Dictionary (30th edition) The entry under noun will read: "a website
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Thursday, July 09, 2009 10:31 AM

Forty-year wait for new thesaurus

I heard this story whilst listening to Radio 4 on the way home on Monday and it really caught my interest. “ The world's largest thesaurus is due to be published this autumn, Oxford University Press has said. The project began in 1965 and will include
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Thursday, July 02, 2009 9:00 AM

Microsoft Maren – Type Arabic in Roman characters on the fly

  Just wanted to point out this really cool looking Windows Extension Microsoft Maren that lets you type using a Roman character keyboard and have it convert to Arabic on the fly. ‘Lack of access to an Arabic keyboard or lack of familiarity with
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009 1:37 PM

Millionth English Word

Strangely is a term ‘ Web 2.0’ according to a story on the bbc- BBC NEWS | Americas | 'Millionth English word' declared Although reading the article there seems to be some doubt…   However I hadn’t realised that ‘ But with 1.5 billion people speaking
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Thursday, February 26, 2009 12:48 PM

Ye Olde English Words

Apparently the oldest English words (according to Reading University researches) are “I”, “we”, “two” and “three”  dating back tens of thousands of years, (40,000)… Also they claim words such as "squeeze", "guts", "stick"
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Monday, February 23, 2009 10:47 AM

Is the Cornish Language extinct?

On Saturday morning I came across this article in the Saturday Independent discussing how the Cornish language had been declared extinct by the UN , and a couple of quotes caught my attention ‘Unesco’s director general, Koichiro Matsuura, said: “The death
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