US linguist in UK. University of Sussex.
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The new Department of Defense faith codes list also classifies Orthodox Judaism as a type of Orthodox Christianity and "Reformed Judaism" as a type of Reformed Christian, while classifying Messianic Jews as a type of Judaism.
Like British 'toilet' and unlike American 'toilet'. Old post from me: separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2007/03/toil...
Same pattern as driv-- licen{c/s}e.
Perfectly Common BrE Words the @NYTimesGames Spelling Bee Has Denied Me: An Occasional Series
LONGLIFE (more usually hyphenated, but single-word in good numbers in BrE)
Now added to the blog list: separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2023/04/nyt-...
I almost put DICTAT in the Perfectly Common BrE Words the @NYTimesGames Spelling Bee Has Denied Me list y'day, but it's a misspelling of DIKTAT & misspellings don't belong there. But, still, it's more common in BrE than AmE.
separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2023/04/nyt-...
Just for the avoidance of doubt, any cuts on student numbers will almost certainly disproportionately affect WP and student groups that are *already* underrepresented.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the current financial crisis is really a Widening Participation crisis.
Happy feast day of St Gottschalk, patron saint of linguists, languages, translators, and lost vocations
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The LDS Church was left off the Department of Defense’s list of Christian religions.
The OffScript podcast, for their Albion series, engaged me in a long conversation about Englishness—something I am definitely no expert on.
But it was interesting!
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LDS Church left off Department of Defense’s list of Christian religions.
