Vax has been chosen as the word of the year by lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Words related to vaccines have spiked in frequency in 2021 due to Covid, with double-vaxxed, unvaxxed and a...
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Canada's Quebec province has denied immigrant status to a French citizen because she was unable to demonstrate adequate French-language proficiency. Quebec rejected Emilie Dubois' application apparently because part of her university thesis ...
Bill Gates has a resume of career highs, but he calls Microsoft's failure to become Apple's chief iOS rival his \\\\\"greatest mistake.\\\\\" The Microsoft founder made the admission twice in recent interviews when discussing how Microsoft lost out ...
A US university professor has been removed as director of a graduate programme, amid a furore over an email she sent urging students not to speak Chinese. Megan Neely, an assistant professor at Duke University in North Carolina, said in an e...
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After two years teaching English on the island of Taiwan, Alan McIvor was ready to start a new career. He’d moved to Asia because a dearth of jobs in Britain and had fallen into teaching English. But, he wanted more out of his work life...
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'Clueless James Bond' back to save his country...
By Tim Bowen Tim Bowen again reflects on the substantial damage sustained in the UK’s recent riots as inspiration for some collocations. If a lot of damage is caused, it can be described as considerable, ext...
By Tim Bowen Type: Article Have you ever experienced a slip of the tongue or set tongues wagging? Tim Bowen articulates his thoughts on some idioms. If something is easy to pronounce, it can be said to trip of...
http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/english-suffers-collateral-damage Posted by Michael Rundell on September 11, 2011 Kerry Maxwell’s next BuzzWord article will be discussing the term&n...
How to improve your communication skills by speaking better English? Practice makes perfect, especially when you want to improve your communication skills. You can find help to polish(润色) your English in a host of(一大群) environments, and a wide a...
BEIJING, Feb. 18 -- China's figure skating(花样滑冰) couple Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo finally realized their Olympic dream, dancing to gold in the figure skating with a nearly flawless(无暇的) routine(程序). The husband and wife team who cam...
Access Hollywood updated 8:44 p.m. ET Sept. 15, 2009 Whitney Houston’s daughter revealed that she’d like to follow in her mother and father’s footsteps by becoming a singer. During Houston’s appearance on &...
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Avoid These 7 Work Taboos Rachel Zupek, CareerBuilder.com writer Whether it's dancing on top of the bar at the company holiday party, chewing with one's mouth open or fal...
Toward a More Civil Work Place Avoiding Offensive Behavior on the Job By Dawn Rosenberg McKay, About.com Who Let the Dogs In? Barbara quit her job last week. She just couldn't take it anymore. What made her quit? Was it a difficult boss? Was s...