2009 articles archive
Language team Dominion Post articles from 2009
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- pdf226KB14 January - Informal cellphone users say goodbye to hello
- pdf209KB28 January - Robertar and the question of the intrusive R
- pdf246KB11 February - Change is just something to get the tongue around
- pdf218KB25 February - Those roundabout words that cause cultural clashes
- pdf226KB11 March - Pig's ear at beer o'clock, anyone?
- pdf198KB25 March - Less and less people see the need to say fewer
- pdf216KB8 April - You write 'ghoughpteighbteau' and I write 'potato'
- pdf345KB22 April - Dissecting pronunciation reveals roots of stress
- pdf221KB06 May - Troubled times may effect an increase in offshoring
- pdf211KB20 May - A painful courtship of spelling and pronunciation
- pdf233KB03 June - To er is human but 'and stuff' has real meaning
- pdf209KB17 June - A real case of different strokes for different folks
- pdf228KB01 July - Bye bye bobos, hello ninjas as gloom replaces boom
- pdf215KB15 July - Language must not become the tool of the bully
- pdf218KB29 July - Losing a language puckeroos your perspective
- pdf213KB12 August - Ltteer odrer in wrods an itnreetsing lnigiusitc toipc
- pdf155KB26 August - Getting a taste for hoagies and mutton-busting
- pdf223KB09 September - Labels make a hamburger out of our expressions
- pdf70KB23 September - Learning when and how to talk the correct talk
- pdf248KB07 October - When language takes us down the garden path
- pdf226KB21 October - Our Kiwiness helps keep the couch-fires burning
- pdf215KB04 November - How to tell when you definitely need an indefinite article
- pdf216KB18 November - Simple pidgin offers everyone a mouthful of exciting subtleties
- pdf216KB02 December - Among the young, they prefer amongst
- pdf355KB16 December - Yes, Alice, words can indeed be made to mean many things
- pdf204KB30 December - When a German says Beamer, he's not talking about his car