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| | | | In the not-too-distant past English used the pronoun "him" to refer to individuals of unspecified gender in phrases such as "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion." This understandably annoys som... | |
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| | | | Dafne Keen as Lyra with Pantalaimon, from the BBC adaptation of Philip Pullmans His Dark Materials. Susan McDonald, an experienced subeditor at the Guardian, has written an article that appears to be about grammar and usage but is really about everyones favourite topic: how annoying other people are. McDonald doubtless knows more than a thing | |
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| | | | Did "word" once rhyme with "afford" and "sword," as it seems to do in Shakespeare's "Sonnet 79" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream"? | |
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| | Just steps from the center of Tikal, a Maya city more than 2,400 years old located in the heart of present-day Guatemala, an international team of researchers - including scholars from Brown University - has unearthed an altar that could offer revealing clues about an enigmatic and tumultuous period |