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		<title>Who’s hu</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Day</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are never many readers in the British Library between Christmas and New Year, so it may not have been the best time to open a new front in a philological campaign. But small piles of bookmarks appeared in the library locker room one morning last week, promoting the use of the word hu. Pronounced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nardac’s Wife</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glen Newey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Royal occasions offer the pleasure of mass atavism, including the revival of antediluvian words and attitudes. As journalists and newsreaders constantly drool, Catherine Middleton is a ‘commoner’. When her wedding was announced, the word turned up in the Mail and the Telegraph, even – though in bet-hedging scare quotes – in the ‘liberal’ Guardian. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Speaking</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenny Diski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why should I worry me about the last white rhino leaving the planet, or the loss of a language that no one speaks any more? To tell the truth, I’m not sure. All loss is loss and needs noting, but do I really care apart from theoretically? Philologists and linguists will care that Ayapaneco, an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Huddle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy Mayall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every so often postal workers get called up to the front of the office for a ‘huddle’. This usually involves the manager standing by the front doors, issuing a long-winded statement from head-office about procedures, while the rest of us stand about feeling restive because we are getting behind with our work. The word, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quiet Zones</title>
		<link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2009/09/01/thomas-jones/quiet-zones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a South West Trains ‘service&#8217; out of London Waterloo the other evening, a barrage of announcements. The guard, the steward and an automated recording repeatedly informed passengers – sorry, &#8216;customers&#8217; – where the train was going, where the buffet car was ‘situated&#8217;, and that there were special &#8216;quiet zones&#8217;, with blue stickers on the [...]]]></description>
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