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		<title>Irregular Verbs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Mignon Fogarty via Grammar Girl

Why do we say we saw a movie instead of we seed a movie, and did you  know that the past tense of the verb “help” used to be “holp” instead  of “helped”?
Regular Verbs Versus Irregular Verbs
Most of the time you add -ed to a verb to put [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.communicateclearlyokc.com/2011/09/irregular-verbs/</link>
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		<title>Facts about the language</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Oxford Dictionaries
The 20-volume historical Oxford English Dictionary is the largest record of words used in English, past and present. It contains words that are now obsolete or rare (such as xenagogue &#8216;a person who guides strangers&#8217; and vicine &#8216;neighboring or adjacent&#8217;) in addition to the latest coinages such as phishing and podcast.
The second edition [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.communicateclearlyokc.com/2011/09/facts-about-the-language/</link>
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		<title>Shtick, Pavilion and other great words</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By  Dr Sima Barmania via The Independent

On Tuesday, those short listed for the prestigious Man Booker prize gathered in West London with the great and good of the literary  establishment. As discussions ensued regarding the merit of the Judges’  decision, Howard Jacobson, winner of the 2010 prize, was succinct in  highlighting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.communicateclearlyokc.com/2011/09/shtick-pavilion-and-other-great-words/</link>
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		<title>Singapore’s language battle: American vs ‘the Queen’s English’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By reddotrevolver via Asian Corresponent

Known as a country in Southeast Asia with a highly educated  workforce, Singapore is also one of the only countries in the region  that uses English as a working language, and as a medium of instruction  in schools. The ease of communication has established the country as the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.communicateclearlyokc.com/2011/09/singapore%e2%80%99s-language-battle-american-vs-%e2%80%98the-queen%e2%80%99s-english%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<title>Are There Hidden Messages in Pronouns?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Juliet Lapidos via Slate
Some 110 years after the publication of the Psychopathology of Everyday Life,  in which Sigmund Freud analyzed seemingly trivial slips of the tongue,  it&#8217;s become common knowledge that we disclose more about ourselves in  conversation—about our true feelings, or our unconscious feelings—than  we strictly intend. Freud focused [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.communicateclearlyokc.com/2011/08/are-there-hidden-messages-in-pronouns/</link>
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		<title>What makes slang stick?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Juliet Lapidos via Slate
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		<link>http://www.communicateclearlyokc.com/2011/08/what-makes-slang-stick/</link>
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		<title>In search of language&#8217;s missing link</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By David Robson via New Scientist
Through the looking glass, Lewis Carroll&#8217;s Alice  stumbles upon an enormous egg-shaped figure celebrating his un-birthday.  She tries to introduce herself:
&#8220;It&#8217;s a stupid name enough!&#8221; Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. &#8220;What does it mean?&#8221;
&#8220;Must a name mean something?&#8221; Alice asked doubtfully.
&#8220;Of course it must,&#8221; Humpty Dumpty  said with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.communicateclearlyokc.com/2011/08/in-search-of-languages-missing-link/</link>
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		<title>Why It’s Smart to Be Bilingual</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Casey Schwartz via Newsweek

On a sweltering August morning, in a  classroom overlooking New York’s Hudson River, a group of 3-year-olds  are rolling sticky rice balls in chocolate sprinkles, as a teacher  guides them completely in Mandarin.


This is just one toddler  learning game at the total&#8211;immersion language summer camp run by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.communicateclearlyokc.com/2011/08/why-it%e2%80%99s-smart-to-be-bilingual/</link>
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		<title>That ugly Americanism? It may well be British.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Dennis baron via The Web of Language
Matthew Engel is a British journalist who doesn&#8217;t like Americanisms.  The Financial Times columnist told BBC listeners that American English  is an unstoppable force whose vile, ugly, and pointless new usages are  invading England &#8220;in battalions.&#8221; He warned readers of his regular FT  column [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.communicateclearlyokc.com/2011/07/that-ugly-americanism-it-may-well-be-british/</link>
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		<title>Language Forensics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ben Zimmer via The New York Times
IMAGINE, if you will, a young Mark Zuckerberg circa 2003, tapping out  e-mail messages from his Harvard dorm room. It’s a safe bet he never  would have guessed that eight years later a multibillion-dollar lawsuit  might hinge on whether he capitalized the word “Internet,” or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.communicateclearlyokc.com/2011/07/language-forensics/</link>
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