No, decolonising your bookshelf doesn’t mean getting rid of Jane Austen
by Rashmee
Posted on May 2, 2022 / openDemocracy
The headline in The Daily Telegraph was stark: “Jane Austen dropped from university’s English course …
Read MoreGaelige and Brussels’ Tower of Babel
by Rashmee
Posted on January 22, 2022
The year opened with good news for speakers of Irish or Gaelige. On January 1, …
Read MoreYou’re…your: The problem with hybrid speech-text communication
by Rashmee
Posted on January 5, 2022
Call me a pedant, but I notice when Muck Rack writes “hoards” (of employees) rather …
Read MoreGreen, blue…grue. The link between where you live and how you speak
by Rashmee
Posted on December 6, 2021
Words used to describe colour show a clear link between geography and vocabulary, according to …
Read MoreLinguistic code is a necessary oil that greases the modern world of work
by Rashmee
Posted on December 3, 2021
One of the funniest – and truest – pieces I recently read was Bartleby’s ruminations …
Read MoreFrom 1979, this man kept tabs on the EU’s worsening verbal diarrhoea
by Rashmee
Posted on July 2, 2021
/ LANGUAGE Words matter, and the European Union shows just how much. In the years …
Read MoreYou can change the world, one dictionary entry at a time
by Rashmee
Posted on May 20, 2021
/ LANGUAGE Maria Beatrice Giovanardi is proof that words matter and we can change the …
Read MoreVoters reward Boris but what about the fog of Brexit Newspeak?
by Rashmee
Posted on May 14, 2021
/ LANGUAGE The May 6 elections in England showed something interesting. People want to be …
Read MoreLobbying and cronyism in Britain: fat cats and other felines
by Rashmee
Posted on April 16, 2021
/ LANGUAGE Britain’s so-called lobbying and cronyism row is anything but. It’s about fat cats, …
Read MoreMoney talks. Mitch McConnell and corporate America’s First Amendment rights
by Rashmee
Posted on April 9, 2021
/ LANGUAGE I thought the Huffington Post offered the most succinct analysis of Senate Minority …
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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK