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Back in 2012, Gabriel Wyner wrote an article for Lifehacker detailing how he learned French in 5 months and Russian in 10, using mostly spare time on the subway. That article went viral.
I hear confessions of Father Ted co-creator Arthur Mathews, Fr Jack, Fr Dougal, Fr Damo, Fr Stone, Fr Ziggy, Eoin McLove and Terry McNamee, plus more secret lives, why some people hated Ted and miscellaneous Tedfoolery
This page is a directory of articles on devices/coats of arms. These articles cover both SCA practice and real-world heraldic practices and should be of interest to submitters as well as heralds of all levels in the SCA.
British words and phrases that have got popular in the U.S.
The letter you always wanted to write
international journal of socialist renewal
Tout le monde connaît le franglais, le créole, et le patois surtout depuis "Bienvenue chez les Cht’is. Le breton, lui, est une vraie langue mais il existe aussi en Bretagne, à côté de cette langue ancestrale un parler pittoresque fait de mots bretons, français et de néologismes empruntant aux deux langues.
Cornwall is one of the most deprived areas in western Europe, despite its luxury holiday homes – with house prices way beyond the reach of young locals. Now popular Cornish tourist destinations are rising up against the incomers
You wouldn't let a little thing like a rail line being down stop you, would you?
THE terrace chant of "Oggy! Oggy! Oggy!" that rings out whenever Wales play may not be quite so Welsh after all.
The following article has been put together to summarise the research that has been carried out so far in reconstructing a working example of the type of bagpipe once found in Cornwall (pybow sagh).
By the mid 20th century there were a number of structural theories of human existence. In the study of language, the structural linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) suggested that meaning was to be found within the structure of a whole language rather than in the analysis of individual words. For Marxists, the truth of human existence could be understood by an analysis of economic structures. Psychoanalysts attempted to describe the structure of the psyche in terms of an unconscious.
Post-Structuralism is a late 20th Century movement in philosophy and literary criticism, which is difficult to summarize but which generally defines itself in its opposition to the popular Structuralism movement which preceded it in 1950s and 1960s France. It is closely related to Post-Modernism, although the two concepts are not synonymous.
FOLK-MUSIC is, of course, merely one of the numerous branches of Folk-lore. It is, however, a very large and important one, so important indeed that it has been found convenient to found a special association—The Folk-song Society—for its investigation. It would, however, be a great mistake to overlook the close connection between the two societies, and it would be a thousand pities if they were to remain entirely separate, each pursuing its own work independently of the other.
Idealising the past is nothing new, but there is something peculiarly revealing about the way a certain generation of Facebook users look back fondly on tougher times