Description: An exercise in commitment and sustainability
1. Thanks to Robin Skipsey for sending this one, prompted by the 110-year-old Cambridge exam questions the other day, 10 ‘grammar rules’ it’s OK to break (sometimes) by Steven Pinker https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/15/steven-pinker-10-grammar-rules-break
2. Native Speakerism – what is it and why does it matter? is the title of a trenchant piece that three British Council former colleagues, Ann Veitch, Ebru Weston & Huma Riaz , have just published on the British Council blog https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/native-speakerism-%E2%80%93-what-it-and-why-does-it-matter Plus, lest there be any doubt about whether or not native speakers make good teachers, a 2016 piece from the BBC archives, Native English speakers are the world’s worst communicators
Is former colleagues the expression I want, I wonder, for people with whom I used to work but no longer do, now I’m retired? Neither ex-colleagues nor one-time colleagues sounds quite right, either.