2008 articles archive
Language team Dominion Post articles from 2008
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- pdf62KB02 January - Island names retain traces of original use
- pdf103KB09 January - Linguistic diversity benefits us all
- pdf59KB16 January - A Kiwi story told in our own words
- pdf103KB23 January - Sorry, but that's no lady - that's a woman
- pdf400KB30 January - Either or
- pdf67KB06 February - Where on earth did that accent come from?
- pdf677KB13 February - Helengrad's hot right now but too ephemeral
- pdf533KB20 February - Reform could spell trouble
- pdf436KB27 February - Battle of the genders
- pdf66KB05 March - When in Rome, you're in Roma
- pdf351KB12 March - A heads-up going forward
- pdf400KB19 March - When yes means no and no means yes
- pdf547KB26 March - Between a consonant and a hard c
- pdf98KB02 April - New words provide degrees of separation
- pdf121KB09 April - Words don't always cleave to meanings
- pdf70KB16 April - Context the key in use of f-word
- pdf53KB23 April - A singular treatment for sports team names
- pdf61KB30 April - How placenames evoke memories of the past
- pdf76KB07 May - Escape of the 'i' so not surprising
- pdf100KB14 May - Females, usherettes and actresses
- pdf88KB21 May - Neanderthals and those lost vowels
- pdf62KB28 May - Greengrocer not the only one who's confused
- pdf78KB04 June - That redundant punctuational paraphernalia
- pdf80KB11 June - Studies of the f-word point to German origins
- pdf79KB18 June - When warriors become worriers
- pdf87KB25 June - Our spoken diversity
- pdf91KB02 July - Verbal tagging - eh
- pdf67KB09 July - English rarely returns words it swallows whole
- pdf80KB16 July - One gender more equal in workplace
- pdf376KB23 July - Lexis gets green tinge
- pdf94KB30 July - The flexible apology
- pdf79KB13 August - The fall and rise of the blurred 'r'
- pdf69KB27 August - Those infixations are a whole nother story
- pdf91KB10 September - Reporting the war on the rugby field
- pdf209KB24 September - One person's googly is another's gobbledegook
- pdf48KB08 October - Who still bothers with whom, and does it matter?
- pdf60KB29 October - Eh is for Aotearoa, innit?
- pdf79KB12 November - Where would writers be without wowsers
- pdf60KB26 November - Language is embiggened by words that don't exist
- pdf227KB10 December - Broadening the vernacular with a trip to Oz
- pdf228KB31 December - An intense little wine, with overtones of hyperbole