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Facebook has surreptitiously resumed allowing decapitation videos to be posted on its website, lifting a temporary ban it had placed earlier this year on content featuring graphic violence.

Background and analysis of poem

Liz Lochead reads her poem 'Kidspoem' or 'Bairnsang' - a poem written in both Scottish and English dialect.

Liz Lochhead explains how she came to write her poem Kidspoem/Bairnsang, and reads it.

A Stanford psychologist found that affluent children had learned 30 percent more words from 18 months to 2 years of age than children from low-income homes.

National Geographic Explorer Wade Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world's indigenous cultures, which are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate (TED talk).

Cambodia's recent elections and subsequent protests have demonstrated Twitter's strength in distributing breaking news and information during fast-evolving events. Will Jackson lists the country's top Tweeps.

Here's a simple and powerful campaign idea from UN Women using real suggested search terms from Google's autocomplete feature.

Exercises on the language and meaning of John Agard's poem.

Article in NewStatesmen about the inclusion of multi-cultural writers in the British school curriculum. The headline comes from John Agard's poem Listen Mr Oxford Don.

Discussion of Sujata Bhatt's poem about being bilingual

Page has many links to other topics related to Global English, including Endangered Languages, adopting words from other languages, etc.

BBC Class Clips

This site is about varieties of language that differ from the standard variety that is normally used in the media and taught in the schools. These include pidgins, creoles, regional dialects, minority dialects and indigenized varieties.

This site is about varieties of language that differ from the standard variety that is normally used in the media and taught in the schools. These include pidgins, creoles, regional dialects, minority dialects and indigenized varieties.

The International Dialects of English Archive was created in 1997 as the first online archive of primary-source recordings of English dialects and accents around the world (audio)

Text and recording of poem Old Tongue

Jackie Kay reads her poem "Old Tongue", which laments the fact that those who move away from Scotland lose their Scottish words in the process.

Poem about losing her accent

Sontag asks how we look at war, arguing that while photography can document the horrors of conflict, it cannot tell us how to evaluate the legitimacy of such horrors.

The actor's recent stunt in Cardiff, in which he admonished celebrity photographers for not capturing "something important," suggests a misplaced faith in photography.