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How Caroline Flint gave the game away about expecting a post in the cabinet
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It’s hardly surprising that people believe that Caroline Flint was expecting a seat in the cabinet when she expressed loyalty to Gordon Br...
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Pre-delicate hitches from the White House
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The delicate nature of some recent news stories seems to have produced a deluge of ‘pre-delicate hitches’ (for more on which, see HERE ). ...
'Pre-delicate hitches' from Brown as he avoids answering a question about the Queen
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I’ve already posted some observations about ‘pre-delicate hitches’ coming out of the mouths of Gordon Brown and Hillary Clinton . The gener...
Planning to say 'um' and 'uh'
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For non-native speakers of English, learning how to use our definite article must be an absolute doddle compared with the problems I’ve alwa...
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The ‘delicacy’ of Mrs Clinton’s ‘consequences’ for North Korea
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First of all, thanks to those of you who took the trouble to make comments about Mrs Clinton’s ‘Consequences’ statement (posted yesterday) –...
Gordon Brown is finding the Jacqui Smith expenses story more ‘delicate’ than he says
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Long ago, I heard one of the founders of conversation analysis (and I can’t remember whether it was Emanuel Schegloff or Gail Jefferson) tal...
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