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OP: I'm from the province of Quebec, Canada, so I thought I would post this.

Quebec struggles to retain its francophone immigrants


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Wife cake and evil water: The perils of auto-translation


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Alaska becomes the second state to officially recognize indigenous languages

By Casey Kelly
Posted on April 21, 2014 at 7:00 amSupporters of a bill to make 20 Alaska Native languages official state languages organized a 15 hour sit-in protest at the Capitol on Sunday. Their dedication paid off early this morning, when the measure passed the Alaska ( Read more... )

A Phrase To Renounce For 2014: ‘The Mentally Ill’
Source - WBUR - Common Health (Boston's NPR)
By: Carey Goldberg
January 3, 2014 | 1:57 PMI wince every time I read it. So does the president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association, Dr. Paul Summergrad, he says ( Read more... )

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Sen. Tim Kaine did something rare on Tuesday: he delivered a speech in Spanish on the floor of the Senate ( Read more... )

We lap up their culture, adopt their economics and are obsessed with the "special relationship". So why do British people have such a confused - even negative - view of Americans, asks writer Will Self.

Full article under the cut...

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An eminent former editor of the Oxford English Dictionary covertly deleted thousands of words because of their foreign origins and bizarrely blamed previous editors, according to claims in a book published this week ( Read more... )

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"Omnishambles" has been named word of the year by the Oxford English Dictionary.

The word - meaning a situation which is shambolic from every possible angle - was coined in 2009 by the writers of BBC political satire The Thick of It.

But it has crossed over into real life this year, said the judges.

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