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		<title>Word of the Week: Excess</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Word of the week brings you up close and personal with the noble tongue of English. This tongue will be wiggled in places where only the brave dare venture. excess :: ex⋅cess :: /ˈɛksɛs/ -noun 1. superfluously redundant: &#8220;you, sir, are an excess,&#8221; said the president to the flustered pacifist. 2. former success: winner of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An outsider’s look at USA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to a profound and passionate interest in linguistics, I am equally driven, if not even more so, by a brain-stimulating, soul-shaking fascination towards the North American continent, the U.S. of A. in particular. The questions, research and casual, that arise from a nation so wonderfully contradictory and attached to its past are copious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Word of the Week: Thespian</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Word of the week brings you up close and personal with the noble tongue of English. This tongue will be wiggled in places where only the brave dare venture. Thespian :: thes⋅pi⋅an :: /ˈθɛspiən/ -noun 1. someone who is sexually attracted to people who lisp: they opened up a new gay and thespian bar in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Word of the Week: Languish</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simo Ahava</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Word of the week brings you up close and personal with the noble tongue of English. This tongue will be wiggled in places where only the brave dare venture. Languish :: lan⋅guish :: /ˈlæŋgwɪʃ/ -noun 1. something that is almost a language but not quite: the police tried to interview him, but he was so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Well, what “If”?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simo Ahava</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Mr. Rudyard Kipling, I tried to keep my head while all about me The sound of guillotines went chop-chop-chop. Decapitated heads were rolling slowly All down the stairs towards the butcher&#8217;s shop. The hardest part was standing out there waiting A patron badgered me about his bill. As severed heads soon bounced upon the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ever heard of Norwegian Black Jazz?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simo Ahava</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to music, I&#8217;m omnivorous. I love a variety of styles, and nothing inspires me more than listening to some of the stranger concoctions that spring up from the melodic undergrowth every once in a while. In this article I review three up-and-coming albums by some of the more striking enterpreneurs in cross-over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HAPPY NEW SCHOOL YEAR 2008-2009!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simo Ahava</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome back! First, an apology is in order. I&#8217;m sure our fanbase of 5-6 dedicated readers (Joe and I included) has been wondering over the course of the summer why we haven&#8217;t published any new articles for ages. Well, believe it or not, BTSB has been enjoying a well-deserved summer vacation. Now, I know we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words That Could Change The World</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simo Ahava</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an aspiring linguist I’m fascinated by words. The way that a seemingly finite set of tokens can join together in a syntactic conspiracy to create an infinite amount of sentences is beyond understanding. To witness a poet or an author deriving the most beautiful imagery from something as ordinary as a Grecian urn opens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Helsinki Corpus Of British English Dialects</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simo Ahava</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Helsinki Corpus of British English Dialects (HD) is a corpus project initiated in the early 1970s by Professor Tauno F. Mustanoja from the English Department, Helsinki, and Professor Harold Orton from the University of Leeds. The corpus contains over a million words of transcribed dialect speech. Covered are the rural regions of Cambridgeshire, Devon, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just When You Think Life Couldn’t Get Any Worse…</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simo Ahava</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[…you’re filmed on home video while instructing your mirror image how sexy you’d look while wearing a crotchless Stormtrooper outfit. …you receive a bill to cover the expense of paper used for all your other, unsettled bills. …you wake up after a wild night of partying naked in a neighbourhood populated by minor ethnicities, with [...]]]></description>
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