The phrase ‘have cake and eat it’ has hit the headlines having been spotted in hand-written notes relating to EU negotiations. This is a classic case of a phrase that implies more than it says, where looking at available instances of use in a corpus can offer some insight. So here are the results of … Continue reading “Having your cake and eating it too”
Month: November 2016
Trump’s racist and sexist language
Many of the column inches devoted to the US presidential elections focus on ‘the things that Donald Trump says’; the way the President-Elect talks is a cause of concern for many, and his sexist and/or racist language causes particular alarm. In a Panorama programme shown on 14 November 2016, Pastor Frederick Haynes was interviewed saying … Continue reading “Trump’s racist and sexist language”