Monthly Archives: January 2010

Burns night: supper, poetry and an ode to a haggis

By admin | Published: 25 January 2010
As a Scot – and an Ayrshire Scot at that – Robert Burns and his poetry have always been important to me and I’ll be raising a glass to his ‘immortal memory’ tonight as Scots the world over celebrate Burns night. The unofficial national bard of Scotland (and voted the greatest ever Scot in a TV [...]
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How do you spell Portuguese?

By admin | Published: 19 January 2010
How do you spell Portuguese? In English, many people forget to put in that second ‘u’, but Portuguese speakers across the world, whether in Portugal, Brazil, Angola or Macau, are likely to spell it correctly: português. One reason it’s easy to get correct is because Portuguese spelling, unlike English, is largely phonetic. But what happens in [...]
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Translation: to Bengali or not to Bengali?

By admin | Published: 15 January 2010
Our production manager Sanjoy Roy highlights a common confusion about Bengali usage The Bengali language is the language of Bengal, right? Well, not wrong – but it’s not as simple as that. In the UK there’s quite a lot of confusion about what Bengali is, so I’ll try to clarify that here. First, let me illustrate the [...]
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