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		<title>The single eye</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Bennetts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have recently befriended a rather superb teacher of English, who chooses quite deliberately to teach war poetry in the summer. Not for her the narrow confines of the November window, with its poppy-wreathed procession of Owen and Sassoon. No, she &#8230; <a href="http://thepoweroflanguage.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/the-single-eye/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepoweroflanguage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16333892&amp;post=385&amp;subd=thepoweroflanguage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Minister announces bold initiative</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Bennetts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Owing to the current Economic climate There is a dearth of words. We are left with no choice.  We must Make challenging efficiency savings To reduce our expenditure of vocabulary To sustainable levels. In order to help us To achieve &#8230; <a href="http://thepoweroflanguage.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/minister-announces-bold-initiative/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepoweroflanguage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16333892&amp;post=392&amp;subd=thepoweroflanguage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The secret life of pronouns &#8211; New Scientist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Bennetts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Terry Kroenung for pointing out this article. The smallest words in our vocabulary often reveal the most about us, including our levels of honesty and thinking style STOP for a moment and think about your most recent conversation, &#8230; <a href="http://thepoweroflanguage.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/the-secret-life-of-pronouns-new-scientist/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepoweroflanguage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16333892&amp;post=377&amp;subd=thepoweroflanguage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Precision tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 00:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Bennetts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a new hero. His name is Lindsay Johns. He is a writer and broadcaster and a mentor to young people in Peckham, and I first encountered him on Radio 4 two weeks ago. Why is he a hero? Because, in &#8230; <a href="http://thepoweroflanguage.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/precision-tools/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepoweroflanguage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16333892&amp;post=335&amp;subd=thepoweroflanguage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>That hyydeous strength</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are proud to be hosting the peerless Robert Low here on The Power of Language &#8211; author of the Oathsworn series and The Lion Wakes, published by HarperCollins. ANYONE who has read reviews of The Lion Wakes – or, &#8230; <a href="http://thepoweroflanguage.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/that-hyydeous-strength-3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepoweroflanguage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16333892&amp;post=308&amp;subd=thepoweroflanguage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RFK, The Language of Atonement, and Classical References &#124; English Lessons &#124; Big Think</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following post by Lea Carpenter appeared on the Big Think website today. We think it bears repeating. Yesterday’s announcement that Robert F. Kennedy’s papers are being reviewed inspired us to revisit one of the former Attorney General’s finest speeches, one we &#8230; <a href="http://thepoweroflanguage.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/rfk-the-language-of-atonement-and-classical-references-english-lessons-big-think/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepoweroflanguage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16333892&amp;post=288&amp;subd=thepoweroflanguage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The power of words</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 06:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good point, well made.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepoweroflanguage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16333892&amp;post=275&amp;subd=thepoweroflanguage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Portrait of the artist as a young introvert</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 10:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Bennetts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sixty-seven years ago this month, an RAF Mosquito on patrol over the Thames was ordered to intercept an incoming V1 flying bomb.  It never returned. Its pilot, Fred Kemp, left behind a wife and three young children. Its navigator, James &#8230; <a href="http://thepoweroflanguage.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-introvert/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepoweroflanguage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16333892&amp;post=227&amp;subd=thepoweroflanguage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A perfect ear for the music of English&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diiarts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are delighted to share this article by Robert McCrum from the Trinity 2011 edition of Oxford Today magazine. Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, born in 1881, came of age at the dawn of mass culture. He was an Englishman of that &#8230; <a href="http://thepoweroflanguage.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/a-perfect-ear-for-the-music-of-english/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepoweroflanguage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16333892&amp;post=212&amp;subd=thepoweroflanguage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Defense of Language</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diiarts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pete Morin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We encountered this post from the great Pete Morin on the blog From The Write Angle. This past week, Boston’s illustrious Mayor, Thomas M. (“Mumbles”) Menino, in his inimitable high dudgeon, called upon the Nike company to cease its sale &#8230; <a href="http://thepoweroflanguage.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/in-defense-of-language/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepoweroflanguage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=16333892&amp;post=206&amp;subd=thepoweroflanguage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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