Dropout at Harvard - Ideas. Don't go a-changing : The legitimacy of my English | ETp. I was in Dublin this week listening to the radio when I chanced upon an interview with a Professor Jeffery Kallen on the Mooney Show on RTE Radio 1. Looking at the issue of whether the Irish and British are starting to sound more American, the presenter Derek Mooney starts by reminding listeners of the speech patterns of Vicky Pollard, the British schoolgirl character in the comedy series Little Britain. Attributing her catch-phrases, such as ‘Yeah but no but yeah’, ‘Shut up!’
, and ‘Oh my god! I sooo don’t believe you said that!’ To the influence of American English, Mooney asks the professor of Linguistics and Phonetics (Trinity College Dublin) if there might be a trend amongst the young people of Ireland to sound more American. Although we’ve started spelling ‘jail’ with a ‘j’ rather than a ‘g’, as in ‘gaol’, most people in Ireland and Britain still say ‘lift’ rather than ‘elevator’.
The Irish often use the word ‘like’ in three ways: to quote – “She was like ‘Go away!’ 12 from ’12: The best of your posts from this year (blog challenge) Last year I had a post called 11 from ’11: The best of your posts from this year (blog challenge) which people seemed to really like and got a lot of tweets and received many responses. Being a bit of a lazy blogger these days, I’ve decided to replicate this post and have simply changed the number ’11′ with ’12′.
Given that the announcement has just been made about the opening of this year’s EduBlog awards, it seems like a perfect time to do this again. Here’s how I laid down the challenge one year ago… ‘This just seems like a great chance to reflect back on a year of blogging, with the hope that others will also do the same. Right then, down to business: some of you are trying hard to drum up support for your blog in the upcoming EduBlog awards. Good luck to you. So, here are the highlights of my blogging year: 1) The Tragic Case of the Riyadh Bar Brawl A fight breaks out between two English teachers in an underground drinking den in Riyadh. What are the roots of my teaching philosophy? Well-chosen words.
The guardians of English may be unable to resist linguistic change but they do have the power to influence it ©Press Association James Murray, the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary Spell it Out: The Singular Story of English Spelling, by David Crystal, Profile, RRP£12.99, 224 pages The Story of Ain’t: America, Its Language and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published, by David Skinner, HarperCollins, RRP£16.99/$26.99, 368 pages Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary, by Sarah Ogilvie, Cambridge University Press RRP£17.99/$29.99, 257 pages Employers have told David Crystal that if they receive a job application with a spelling mistake, it goes straight in the bin. Misspelling is not a modern malady. You would not get either “incum” or “holesome” today.
I have a spelling checker, It came with my PC. It plane lee marks four my revue Miss steaks aye can knot sea. Why, for centuries, have people struggled to spell? Language and spelling change. Mentoring is good for us - 12 tips for effective mentoring. At the beginning of 2013 I was invited to take part in a course about mentoring offered by EVO . To my surprise, I discovered that mentoring is something I have been doing for a long time. Furthermore, it is one of the things I like most as a teacher and a teacher trainer. The use of mentoring is widespread across the commercial, education and not-for-profit sectors as a developmental, supporting and helping activity. So mentoring is part of our professional development The origin of the term mentor is found in Homer's epic poem The Odyssey wherein Odysseus gave the responsibility of nurturing his son Telemachus to his loyal friend Mentor. Odysseus ventured off to the Trojan War while Mentor stayed behind to educate Telemachus.
This education was not confined to the martial arts but was comprehensive in that it included every facet of Telemachus' life. I have experienced mentoring teachers for over 20 years. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.