English in use
Here we consider different forms of English by place (regional and international), and some popular trends in writing and speech.
Englishes by place
- English dialect study—an overview, by Clive Upton
- Cockney, by Jonathon Green
- Australian English in the twentieth century, by Bruce Moore
- East Anglian English, by Peter Trudgill
- North-east English dialects, by Adam Mearns
- Canadian English, by Stefan Dollinger
- South African English, by Penny Silva
Trends and expressions
- The ‘-gate’ suffix, by Eleanor Maier
- ‘Tex-Mex’: terms in English, by Matt Kohl
- Raw-head, bloody bones, and other terrors of the nursery, by Eleanor Maier
- Pigskin and gridiron: notes on the American Football lexicon, by Matt Kohl
- Through a glass: how the language of cocktails shapes English, by Denny Hilton
- Lights, camera, lexicon: the language of films in the OED, by Katherine Connor Martin
- Breaking the code: lexicography and cryptography, by Peter Gilliver
- The most distinctive counting system in English? Indian cardinal numbers, by Richard Shapiro
- Why the OED’s Word of the Day is special, by Craig Leyland
- Can-do: the all capable ‘-buster’, by Eleanor Maier
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