Some people just hate people from foreign lands ... One could get carried away with this "must speak proper English" thing. For one thing, if that were a requirement for public service, George ...

Yes its good to learn, for communications sake, what is accepted as proper English. But let's face it the Queen's English will always be just that...The Queen's English. Just like Americans speak ...

In a long follow-up, Mr Sherrington reframed “proper” as “appropriate”: children must speak and write the correct variety of English for ... is interesting is just when, and how, people ...

Some politicians have, in the past, found it difficult to speak ... to speak proper English if they are going to represent people,” White said. “We are not talking about just representing ...

In this week's New Yorker we learn of two competing schools of language scholars: The stodgy, old-school prescriptivists, who think there should be set rules for speaking and writing English ...

I get uncomfortable with a narration having a "Chinese accent" just to give "color ... the royal privilege, of speaking the "correct" kind of English, the kind broadcast on the radio and TV.

Pupils are becoming increasingly "bilingual" in English and text-speak, a new study claims. But is it just a simple decline in proper language skills, asks Anne Merritt. Text-speak: shortened bits ...

But an accumulation of knowledge hidden deep in my brain was waiting to be released, and I know just who to blame. My mother was insistent on her children speaking proper English. An avid reader ...

and that just over 1 in 5 adults speak a language other than English at home, according to figures from the U.S. Census Bureau. Ending communications in languages other than English reverses the ...

There are many Afrikaners who do not speak proper English (or any of it at all ... With News24, you're not just reading the news; you are part of a community that values knowledge and insight. Immerse ...