2010 articles archive

Language team Dominion Post articles from 2010

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• pdf215KB13 January - Teaching young children how to 'breaked' those language rules
• pdf219KB27 January - Out of the mouths of babies - learning the mother tongue
• pdf216KB10 February - Schools may come in many guises, but are the staff user-cuddly?
• pdf216KB24 February - Eating spaghetti easier than grasping use of Italian plurals in English
• pdf236KB10 March - Generic speech does women no favours
• pdf221KB24 March - Mis-segmentation - 'Wreck a nice beach' or 'recognise speech'?
• pdf189KB07 April - Colourful politicians gain immortality spicing up the lexicon
• pdf170KB21 April - A matter of stress makes all the difference to what you mean
• pdf188KB05 May - The complex art of learning to hold a conversation in English
• pdf182KB19 May - The tricky subject of sorting out the singular from the plural
• pdf189KB02 June - Struggling with a trip to the Cabiddy Coast on a Sadaday
• pdf175KB16 June - Pronunciation has progressed but spelling is stuck in a time warp
• pdf200KB30 June - When it comes to words of leadership, culture makes the difference
• pdf183KB14 July - It's the tiniest things that can cause the biggest upsets
• pdf150KB28 July - Rag-planter's paradise provides a treasure trove we can swear by
• pdf179KB11 August - Not all of our English spellings are without rhyme or reason
• pdf166KB25 August - Grappling with the nuances of another language no easy task
• pdf156KB08 September - Why Karl du Fresne shouldn't stress too much about prepositions
• pdf211KB22 September - In praise of the harmless drudge - the true hero of the language
• pdf217KB06 October - No need to throw a wobbly, we're just doing what comes naturally
• pdf215KB20 October - Unfortunate names have a long history - just ask the Shufflebottoms
• pdf292KB03 November - Sometimes its not what you say but the accent you use to say it
• pdf226KB17 November - They've just got that rhythm
• pdf212KB1 December - When meaning peters out among hoi polloi
• pdf202KB15 December - Confusion over next Friday tells of a Scottish heritage
• pdf216KB29 December 2010 - 'Deck the halls with Buddy Holly' is what you call a mondegreen