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Starmer comparison does a disservice to speed awareness trainers
Fidlets, fingies and riding a doo: study sheds light on Antarctic English slang
Cornish language revives on back of psych-pop and Covid
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Babbling babies may be warming up for speech, say scientists
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‘I Gullah Geechee, too’: the educators keeping a language of enslaved Africans alive
Sunn m’Cheaux and Akua Page teach Gullah language and culture from juvenile incarceration facilities to Harvard
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