Even the BBC gave up on RP (received pronunciation), and now it seems Africa is catching on that you don't have to sound like you swallowed a dictionary in order to convey your intelligence.Ghana calls to an end to the Queen's English.

The past, the present and the future walk into a bar. It was tense. Thanks to Russ Bronson.

I was wandering around Second Life on Thursday, when I came across a really nice guy from Peru (well he said he was from Peru).  There was music playing in the background, and it was his friend on the guitar - nice.  I asked him if he played and he admitted he only played bits […]

Once upon a time, saying the F-word was considered shocking. Jools Holland was sacked from the BBC for letting it slip out on the Tube, but it seems to have lost its sting. Nowadays we even have a clothing label FCUK (which is meant to stand for French Connection UK - but who are they […]

"Welcome to Ukraine! I am a state traffic inspector," Ukrainian police officers are learning English  in preparation for the Euro 2012 football tournament. According to the interior ministry, free English lessons are being organised for officers in the four Ukrainian cities expected to host matches: Kiev, Lviv, Donetsk and Kharkiv. They are learning to say […]

According to Oxford University English professor Kathryn Sutherland, Jane Austen was a poor speller and erratic grammarian who got a big helping hand from her editor  William Gifford. After studying 1,100 handwritten pages of unpublished work from the pen of Jane Austen, the professor concluded that they contradicted the claim by Austen's brother Henry that […]