Identity·2nd March 2022Ekushe February: Celebrating International Mother Language Day Anisah Qausher Image description: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (centre), Founding Father of Bangladesh, with his family. মা, তোর মুখের বাণী আমার কানে লাগে... Read More
Comment·31st March 2021Reclaim the streets, reclaim language: the issue with how we talk about sexual harassment Rachel Rees Image description: white façade with the phrase ‘protect women now’ written on it in purple chalk. Everything about the recent... Read More
Comment·16th April 2020COVID-19 has no parallel in war. Our language should reflect this Poppy Atkinson Gibson Image description: Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Prime Minister Boris Johnson clapping outside 10 Downing Street It has become something of... Read More
Features·27th October 2018A second language, a second self: being an Israeli in Oxford Yotam Vaknin Image credit: Facebook Yotam Vaknin is from Israel pursuing his MSc in Physics. One evening during my second week at Oxford, my... Read More
Features·5th February 2018The Language Problem: is Esperanto worth it? International communication has always been an issue in discussions of the future of the human race, but the situation is... Read More
Comment·24th October 2017When is a vote for self-determination legitimate? – Catalonia, Spain and the 1st October referendum Siddharth Jayaprakash On the 1st of October, Catalonia – one of Spain’s richest regions – had a referendum. It was quickly declared as... Read More
Features·13th October 2015German culture shock Ella Harold Perhaps it was naive of me, but I didn’t come to Germany expecting a culture shock. Schnitzel and S-Bahns aside,... Read More
Comment·23rd December 2014Feminism – what’s in a name? Ariane Laurent-Smith Feminism. On the surface, such an innocuous word, fighting for gender equality- who could argue with that? Words evolve in... Read More
NewsUniversity News·9th November 2012Linguists offered Romanian Catherine Edwards Oxford University students will be able to study Romanian for the first time, thanks to a lectureship funded by the... Read More
Pink·7th May 2021Pronouns and evolving gender within language Miqueas Lopez Image description: two rolls of stickers in a basket which say “They/them/theirs” and “Ze/hir/hirs” on them respectively A few weeks... Read More
Pink·13th May 2020Bona to vada your eek! The secret world of Polari Ben Jureidini Image description: A Punch and Judy puppet show Vada’d any bona eeks recently? No? Surely you’ve at least zhoozed your... Read More
Features·27th October 2019Bière, “sandwiches de pulled pork” and Hindi: Parisian multiculturalism at its best Joe Rattue If I’d heard the word “Paris” before July this year, I’d have thought of the Eiffel Tower, croissants, nice coffee,... Read More
Features·27th October 2018“Shark bait hoo ha-ha”: A New Yorker’s take on the Oxford lingo Evalena Labayen Image credit: Pixabay Evalena is a visiting student from New York reading English. This is my first year at Oxford and... Read More
Comment·24th October 2017The Erasmus Programme could be in danger of dying post-Brexit Hal Churchman The Erasmus Programme turns 30 this year, but its future in the UK is in doubt. With no concrete assurances from the... Read More
Sport·12th October 2016Mind Your Language: Why Favourites Fail and Underdogs Prevail James Faktor James Haskell, England International and Lions rugby player, sits down for an interview. He starts talking about Richie McCaw, the... Read More
Comment·30th December 2014We need to change the way we talk about mental health Katherine Plummer It seems a sad indictment on society’s approach to mental illnesses that only on the 18th of December were mentally ill... Read More
Entertainment·16th May 2013Preview: The Cosmonaut’s Last Message To The Woman He Once Loved In The Former Soviet Union Victoria Lampard Heavy brows and chiselled features abound in the aesthetically convincing cast of David Greig’s The Cosmonaut’s Last Message To The... Read More