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Piano de cuisine : French translation for "range cooker"

The influence of Arabic on English and French: links to Arabic loanwords in French and in English

We spent last Saturday walking in Swaledale, in the Yorkshire Dales, starting from [...]

A reader asked me whether the Plain English campaign has affected my work [...]

I'm back from the USA. I had a fantastic time (can you see [...]

It's official. There goes the 60,000 word English report I was meant to [...]

Thank you to all the people who sent me interesting links recently. As [...]

When I first arrived in England and I was struggling to understand and [...]

Three interesting language maps for you, courtesy of strange maps (via Language Log) [...]