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Cambridge app maps decline in regional diversity of English dialects

26 May 2016

Regional diversity in dialect words and pronunciations could be diminishing as much of England falls more in line with how English is spoken in...

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SOCCs appeal: online learning versus the classroom

13 Aug 2013

MOOCs – or massive open online courses – have been touted a cure for the education sector’s ills by some, but merely the latest symptom of it by...

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Words

What is English?

16 May 2013

English speakers who are 18 or under use the word ‘like’ in conversation over five times as often as speakers who are over 70; ‘because’ is the most...

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Cambridge launches first Creative Writing degree

26 Mar 2013

The University of Cambridge’s first Master of Studies (MSt) in Creative Writing will explore the art of writing in all its many forms and guises, not...

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Jarvis Cocker

Lyrics without music, poetry without borders

21 Feb 2012

A series of recitals organised by poet John Kinsella looks at the relationship between song lyrics and poetry, inviting renowned musicians to perform...

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Cambridge English

Testing the World’s English

15 Nov 2011

English language testing, and the research that underpins it, has been elevated to a new level by the increasing global dominance of English, now...

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Looking up in a dictionary

Unconscious language learning

03 Nov 2011

Unconscious learning could be the secret to speeding up learning a second language.

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Commonplace books from the collection of Professor William St Clair

Facebook's precursor

14 Jul 2011

'Commonplace books' were scrapbooks into which people copied their favourite poems and collected together other items – and were used as the basis...

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Wordsworth notebook

Cambridge Ideas - Strange Seas of Thought

15 Nov 2010

A journey into Wordsworth's mind and the process of creation

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