German researchers say babies begin to pick up the nuances of their parents' accents while still in the womb. The researchers studied the cries of 60 healthy babies born to families speaking French and German. The French newborns cried with a rising "accent" while the German babies' cries had a falling inflection. Source: BBC News […]

According to a survey conducted for software specialists Corizon by YouGov, people in Scotland swear the most. About 15 per cent admitted turning the air blue when arguing with call centre staff. Londoners were second in the foul-mouthed league, with 12 per cent confessing to losing it with "inappropriate language". I always feel sorry for […]

Oxford University Press are publishing the world's largest thesaurus. It's taken them 40 years to compile the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, which is published in two volumes, and is 4,500 pages long. It contains 800,000 meanings split into 236,000 categories and sub-categories. But don't worry, you don't have to memorise them all.

According to reading charity Booktrust, half of British children spend more time in front of a TV or computer screen than they do reading. The good news is that a poll of 3,090 children and parents suggests reading has become more popular - and 96% of children say they enjoy it. But, one in 20 […]

Usually using a cash machine (ATM) isn't that much fun, unless you pretend you're playing a one armed bandit and you've just won. But a number of cash machines in east London are about to change all that. People using Bank Machine ATMs will be able to opt to have their prompts and options given […]

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