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Honesty and the online review
A negative customer review can have a massive impact. Are companies stacking the deck?
Bin Laden’s death and the birth of a quote
After Bin Laden’s death, one quote was repeated across the Internet. But who gets the credit?
The word’s the thing: Shakespearean trends
In all of his work, Shakespeare uses 17,677 unique words. Did he invent them?
OED: Making sense of our nonsense
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), that venerable keeper of the language, recently released its latest quarterly update.
Does teen slang improve marketing?
With all the buzz about ‘teenglish’, you might get the impression that it’s a new phenomenon. Well, it’s not.
That word is so last year
In its annual international survey of the English language, The Global Language Monitor tracks the most popular words and phrases from 2010
That’s so 2000: words from the last decade
So the decade-with-no-name has ended, and just like any other year, a host of new words and phrases were coined.
Marketing in a challenging economy
Recession. Stagnation. Economic slowdown. Here are some tips on marketing in the current financial climate.
Overdosing on corporate speak?
Text-speak is not the only phenomenon that has us wondering what’s happened to ordinary English.
Does nothing matter in Danish?
Around the world, “ø” means nothing. In Denmark, it’s the 28th letter of the alphabet.
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