• As for renewing the English language, except for Shakespeare, it has tended to do that by itself, and usually on the streets.

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  • This was accompanied by a proprietorial admission that French has decisively lost the battle for status as the world language and that English is now the established global means of communication, for practical matters and for a growing range of cultural ones.

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  • Monty Python member turned Hollywood film-maker Terry Gilliam is to return as a director for the English National Opera, it has been announced.

    BBC: Terry Gilliam to return to the English National Opera

  • The visitors also had more Scottish-based players than the home side as Vogts used the game as extra practice for players whose English campaigns had just ended.

    BBC: Scottish second string win

  • Yet, in what was the first imperial education policy in British India, Macaulay aggressively pushed for English as the medium for as many Indians as possible to be given a Western education.

    BBC: Recalling Thomas Macaulay's English legacy

  • Back at the start of the English soccer season, oddsmakers rated Leicester City and West Ham United as favorites for promotion from the Football League Championship to the English Premier League.

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  • The language barrier does not affect the majority, but for those who enter school as English learners the challenges are even greater.

    NPR: Instruction Of Students Learning English Bleak

  • And defying to the perception of the UK as the only key innovator for the social economy (no doubt in part due to the comparative advantage of the English language as the global transmitter of ideas, compared to French or German), continental Europe is emerging as an innovation space for the new role of government in social entrepreneurship.

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  • Mrs Ellis, who works for the BBC as English Regions head of new media, said a recovery plan was in place, with the college set to be "back in the black" in two years' time.

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  • Kim Williams, the Australian chief executive of the studio, brags that Australia will emerge early in the next century as the main base outside the United States for the production of English language films.

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  • Holding the referendum on the same day as elections for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and some English local authorities may result in differential turnouts across the country and a skewed result.

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  • On Wednesday lawyers representing Edexcel told the High Court that grade boundaries had to be raised for the June exams compared to those in January to stop an "unacceptable lowering of the standard required for a C in GCSE English, as compared with the standard in previous years".

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  • Two leading private schools have been selected as teaching schools to train teachers for the English state sector.

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  • It will be good for the English game as well.

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  • Meanwhile Mr Hague's political opponents accused him of "knee-jerk opportunism" by Labour and "ill-judged populism" by the Liberal Democrats as all parties hit the campaign trail for next week's English council elections.

    BBC: Hague branded 'saloon-bar' politician

  • He joins midfielders Matt Gill (Exeter City) and Owain Tudur Jones (Swansea City) and defender Michael Nelson (Hartlepool) as the Canaries' new additions for life back in the third tier of English football.

    BBC: Norwich snap up Australian keeper

  • Bent was also in the frame for the 2006 World Cup after finishing the Premier League season as the top English goalscorer - but was overlooked by then manager Sven-Goran Eriksson.

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  • But Margery's letter, as the first English Valentine, has added significance for scholars and is currently part of a British Library exhibition on the evolution of the English language.

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  • The victory capped a productive night for English clubs as Chelsea, Tottenham and Newcastle managed to partly atone for the failure of their Premier League counterparts in the Champions League -- none of whom made it into the last eight.

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  • She said Indonesian maids were in demand as carers for the elderly because, with limited English skills, their Cantonese has a tendency to improve quickly.

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  • The Italian words convey the same ideas as the English equivalents: a new story about the cosmos to contemplate for pleasure is fine, a demonstration of the way things work is not.

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  • The decision by Education Secretary Michael Gove will mean that computing will count as a science in the English Baccalaureate for secondary school league tables from January 2014 - alongside physics, chemistry, biology and pupils taking double science.

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  • Edinburgh Airport, for instance, is attractive to incoming visitors as much as a gathering place for outbound - not least today, as the planes head south with happy English rugby fans.

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  • Seth takes on the book world as just another writer with a novel in English, demanding no indulgence for the exotic experience of being from a distant commonwealth.

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  • Among the organisations it would house are an Institute of Sport - which would serve as a new headquarters for the London region of the English Institute of Sport.

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  • The opportunity to work with dialogue written by Stoppard, whom Hall calls the "greatest living dramatist in the English language, " was a major draw for the actor, as was her appreciation for Ford Madox Ford, who wrote the novel on which the miniseries is based.

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  • These benefits for the Scots, the Welsh and the English will add up to a general benefit for Britain as a whole.

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  • There are elections in London, for the Mayor and Assembly, in the 32 Scottish and 22 Welsh local councils, as well as for 36 English metropolitan councils and 18 English unitary authorities - not to mention at least 11 referendums on whether or not cities should switch to government by a mayoral system.

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  • Now the Russian version of the book is available for uploading (you can upload the English original and the Romanian version as well).

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  • Taylor cited the influx of foreign players into the English game as a major reason for managers not sticking with homegrown talent.

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