Cometh the hour, cometh the growth opportunity

by Rashmee

Posted on March 20, 2020


Three sectors are flourishing in the age of the novel coronavirus, Covid-19: New words and …

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Cometh the hour, cometh the words that will go viral

by Rashmee

Posted on March 17, 2020


Once upon a time, it was Brexit that added new words to the dictionary. “Brexit” …

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Mind your language in this slacktivist, post-truth world

by Rashmee

Posted on May 4, 2017 / The National


Political junkies, lexicographers and social media users recently enjoyed a rare, shared moment of levity. …

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Some Americans took the ‘haboob’ advisory to signal a takeover by Arabs

by Rashmee

Posted on June 4, 2016


Texan anger at their weather service’s description of the duststorm as “haboob” was a reminder …

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Please don’t say ‘I feel like’. The phrase is a sign of a cultural sickening

by Rashmee

Posted on May 6, 2016


When Molly Worthen @MollyWorthen suggests we should all stop saying “I feel like”, I feel …

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English is devilishly hard: If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught?

by Rashmee

Posted on April 20, 2015


English is really devilishly hard – for foreign learners, not to speak native ones as …

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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