Thursday, 3 October 2024

Not my first Rodeo No 6: Corpus Schmorpus...

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A shameless reposting of 13-year old content again, but much updated: One question that people ask when you say you write dictionaries is: ...
Thursday, 1 November 2012

Issues around Lingo Bingo

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Now the concept of 'Lingo Bingo' is, I am sure, well understood by those who have attended team-building sessions, monthly depart...
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Thursday, 26 January 2012

What's a hater? It's someone who hates on you

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I had seen the word 'hater' cropping up a lot. It was in rap videos, on urban dictionary ( http://www.urbandictionary.com/ ), and in...
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Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Jobs that begin with the letter 'L'

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Such as 'lexicographer', were one of the subjects on our local radio station today, so I spent ten minutes talking to Lesley Dolphin...
Friday, 9 September 2011

English phrases borrowed from Chinese - kind of

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What I'm talking about are not the obvious Chinese-sounding words like tofu and Feng Shui (which are indeed borrowed or imported from Ch...
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Monday, 15 August 2011

duì​bu​qǐ 对不起！ - apologies for absence for last three weeks

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(duì ​ bu ​ qǐ is the normal Chinese word for "sorry!" by the way. It's the one you use when you bump into someone in a queue...
Monday, 18 July 2011

Chinese Sayings No.5

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杯盘狼藉 (bēi pán láng jí) To find out what this idiom means, why don't you just copy the Chinese chara...
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