The prestigious anthology of English poems The Oxford Book of English Verse contains 822 poems from the 13th century “Sumer is icumen in” through to Seamus Heaney’s “The Pitchfork” in the late 20th century. The greatest wordsmiths in the English… Read More ›
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Welcome to British education 2020: Hull mum disgusted as 11-year-old set ‘hardcore porn’ homework
Teachers have asked the 11 to 14-year-olds to “define” pornography, soft pornography, hardcore pornography and transsexual pornography, as well as female genital mutilation, wet dreams, trafficking, male circumcision, breast ironing and more. source
English is continuously evolving, adding new words to its incredibly rich vocabulary
With great social change comes great linguistic change. The Oxford English Dictionary reports: source