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.
Can SMO help you grow?
The marketing game has changed a lot over the last few years. Not just how your organization communicates, but where.
Is your event blogable?
The blogging trend is not only changing the way companies communicate with customers – it’s also seen the rise of a host of new words.
Summertime blues
These words have all worked their way into the language over the last year or so. But nobody knew what they meant in 2004
Global business – global language
As business goes global, language has to follow. The word ‘offshoring’ has already made it into the Oxford dictionary and others will follow.
New words for your phone
The mobile phone. How did we ever cope without it?
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