• Now, this is GottaRegister -- I'm sorry, any English teachers who are in the room -- (laughter) -- it's not "got to, " it is "gotta" -- g-o-t-t-a register.com.

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  • And if we lose the necessity of our narrow three A-level prescribed university route, will there be need for GCSEs or even English Baccalaureate Certificates - personally I cannot see one and we all know that some of us are questioning the validity of them anyway.

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  • Assigned to Berman for tenth-grade English, I took a seat one September morning alongside sixteen or seventeen other boys.

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  • In Cork, no less, in the 18th-century English Market, I sampled smoked mussels in vinaigrette, rock lobster from Kinsale, tender soda bread flavored with fennel seed, elderflower cordial, floury Golden Wonder potatoes and Yellowman toffee.

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  • The guys were looking sharp in training on Tuesday, so I have every faith the boys will win on Saturday - I firmly believe it will be a great night for English rugby.

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  • English Heritage said the Grade I-listed Ditherington Flax Mill in Shrewsbury, built in 1797, was the world's first iron-framed building.

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  • His song had the rather clumsy title of I am I...or I am Me... or Me am I - doesn't really work well in English, does it?

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  • So the bad grades were one reason I quit English, but there was an-other reason, a bigger reason: I couldn't shake the feeling that there was something else I should be doing, something I hadn't tried or considered, something new and better.

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  • In 2006, I ended a five-year stint as a high school English teacher.

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  • By the time I was sporting my nylon (get-too-close-to-the-sun-and-it-will-sizzle-up) cap and gown, I realized that English Literature was absolutely the wrong choice for me.

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  • Scanning readers' comments left on the article, I see I am taxed with being an English nationalist and deep-dyed Eurosceptic, bent on wrecking the EU. This puzzles me, sincerely.

    ECONOMIST: European politics

  • "To be told in my own country I can't use a word in the English dictionary - it's nonsense, " said Mr McColghan.

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  • In 1998, for instance, Brian Friel wrote an adaptation of "Uncle Vanya" in which Anton Chekhov's quintessentially Russian tale of impoverished aristocrats at bay is translated into a subtly Irish-accented version of English in which "Well, I wish you all the best of luck!"

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  • The Boughton Estate is known as the the "English Versailles" because of the magnificent gardens and Grade I-listed park.

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  • "I've never been a tune-up for anybody, never mind this English kid, " said the 36-year-old American veteran.

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  • After the conversation, I tried to imagine what it would be like to teach English to ninety-four middle-school kids in a remote Yangtze village.

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  • What has always fascinated me about World War I was the fundamental change that this titanic futility worked in the way English-speaking people thought.

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  • They haven't won the Twenty20 yet, but this is their opportunity - and I think they're going to come really hard at the English team.

    BBC: England target first trophy at ICC World Twenty20

  • From a mother-and-son duo to an English couple celebrating their anniversary, everyone I met extended their stay, and many discussed quitting their jobs to join the Lazy Beach staff, something that's happened more than once.

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  • "I was so nervous this week - there was a lot of talk in the English media that they had one big game in them and I was dreading it would be against us, " he said.

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  • How it affected us on a, kind of, more human and more emotional level, that's difficult to quantify, but I remember when I - in my school, we had a French teacher who was actually an English woman.

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  • "I'm really very interested in this deal, " he says in Israeli-accented English.

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  • And I have a funny feeling that the Committee for Literature will continue to focus on non-English, non-European works so the other parts of the universe get a little credit, too.

    NPR: Is the Nobel Sweep Over for Americans?

  • Mr. MARASH: For me, it's an opportunity, I think, to join the most exciting experiment going on in television news - certainly in English - in the world today.

    NPR: First Anniversary for Al Jazeera in English

  • While I was governor, I was proud that our fourth-graders came out number one of all 50 states in English and then also in math, and our eighth-graders number one in English and also in math.

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  • ''I suspect the locals had low expectations, '' he says in perfect, if soft-spoken English.

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  • Since I arrived in Old Blighty with my English wife last week, I've heard how the pound is struggling, real-estate values are plunging, austerity measures are widely disliked, the government is seen as harsh and ineffective, and unemployment is on the rise.

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  • And let me say -- Sawatdee khrap. (Laughter.) I will say that the Prime Minister's English is much better than my Thai. (Laughter.) But I want to say thank you so much, Madam Prime Minister, for your very warm welcome, your generous words, and the sense of partnership that you bring to our work today.

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  • Even so, I got a book flung at me for talking in class by our inspirational English teacher, an ex-army man.

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