It was announced earlier that the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office is to cut funding to the BBC World Service.…
It was good to read in the Evening Standard (20/1/2011) that, as part of the opening ceremony for the 2012…
Do you have any pronunciation pet hates? If people ask you where you stand on ‘aitch’ versus ‘haitch’, do you…
I have recently been reading a few articles about the dwindling take-up of Modern Foreign Languages in schools and other…
I am beginning to despair at our use of English in this country. I won’t profess to be an expert…
I was disappointed to read that Martin Rilker, Associate Director of Dalkey Archive Press, at a recent Literary Translation Conference…
Did you know that last year was the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures? No, neither did I (until…
Translation works best when it is read: choose subtitles over dubbing You will often find linguists are also world cinema…
The August/September 2010 issue of The Linguist, the magazine published by the Institute of Linguists, features a very interesting article…
A Welsh translation for Welcome It was interesting to read Peter Law’s article in The South Wales Echo back in…