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Identity
·2nd March 2022

Ekushe 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...
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·31st March 2021

Reclaim 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...
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·16th April 2020

COVID-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...
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Features
·27th October 2018

A 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...
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Features
·5th February 2018

The 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...
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Comment
·24th October 2017

When 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...
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Features
·13th October 2015

German 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,...
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Comment
·23rd December 2014

Feminism – 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...
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NewsUniversity News
·9th November 2012

Linguists offered Romanian

Catherine Edwards
Oxford University students will be able to study Romanian for the first time, thanks to a lectureship funded by the...
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Pink
·7th May 2021

Pronouns 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...
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Pink
·13th May 2020

Bona 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...
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Features
·27th October 2019

Bière, “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,...
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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...
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Comment
·24th October 2017

The 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...
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Sport
·12th October 2016

Mind 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...
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·30th December 2014

We 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...
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·16th May 2013

Preview: 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...
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