Monthly Archives: December 2010

Add this up

The Telegraph reports that “two teenage youths and a 16-year-old girl” have been involved in a car accident. Am I missing something – or doesn’t that make three teenage youths? Perhaps the word ‘youth’ now refer exclusively to males in the Telegraph’s world. And youths or teenagers, would suffice, surely?
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The ‘dark matter’ of new words to be uncovered

Neglected new words to be captured in Harvard's digital 'fossil record'
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Really bored of the Plain English campaign now

One person's Plain is another person's dogma.
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