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  a few hundred votes and you spent your day sitting around,Air Max 1, We fought to the very end, ,lululemon sale, These moves have serious undermined reform initiatives started when Pranab Mukherjee,Nike Air Max,000 words. while Maupassant's harsh naturalism fed into the work of Céline.<br>  "People write more now than they did even in the very old days. your grand daughter or someone knows how to so you have to learn. So people are much freer and more open in what they write about and you're more likely to accept acronysms SMS speak LOL is in the OED already Some of these things are older than you think You see CU way back in history far older than its SMS usage But that doesn't upset the core of the language which is pretty solid and pretty standard and has been for a long time"Big changes aren't happening so fast as they were in the old days If you lived in 1000 and then looked ahead to 1500 you wouldn't understand the words and the accents that were being used then especially with the influx of French I don't see such cataclysmic change happening in the future"From 1750 or so from Samuel Johnson's dictionary things really haven't changed so much Whereas 250 years before Johnson it was dogged by non-standardisation In the middle ages it was a series of dialects"I'm probably slower to accept that there is a massive change on the way because I'm aware that there has been a lot of stability over the last few centuries I don't think a completely new form of language is going to come out of the technological changes we're seeing now I'd be very surprised if it did "Ever since the OED was founded in the mid-nineteenth century English has been the language of the world a notion that only recently has been under threat - at least through peaceful means Whether it outlasts the transferring of power and wealth to the east is not simply a socio-economic matter"In the 80 my predecessor Bob Burchfield gave lectures where he claimed that in 200 years time British and American English would be mutually incomprehensible Now the question is more whether in 200 years time whether English will be of any significance on the world stage at all whether it will have been overtaken by Chinese or Indian I can't tell where things are going to go but there are difficulties with the Chinese and Indian languages becoming the principle language because people from outside those areas will have to learn new alphabets It would be quite a complicated shift But perhaps the Chinese and Indian languages will shift themselves in such a way that makes them more easy to accommodate I would be suspicious of the possibility at the moment but things change so quick that who's to say in 50 years things won't be very different"On Mr Simpson's watch the OED is now updated every three months far more regularly than before and over 60000 new words and definitions have been added On his desk is a stack of A4 107 pages thick with a post-it note on the front on which the word 'EYE' is written "Yes these are all the definitions for eye I've been looking at eye-shadow recently" he says "I've found early uses of the term on databases for American local newspapers Eye-wash A wash or lotion from the eye from the 19th century Now we've found examples back to the 18th century And it also means nonsense which comes from the late nineteenth century But we've just found an example from The Times in 1872 of that usage so that'll be in the next edition"The work is essentially the same in nature to when its first editor Sir James Murray began in 1879 except there is more emailing and less letter-writing But the 21st century dictionary is a subtly but noticeably different undertaking"When I started writing in the 1970s we were aware that our target audience was Oxford dons the sort of people who would have access to and be interested in this 20 volume thing Now it's online we're conscious that its accessible to a much wider range of people We don't want to lower the quality of the analysis that we do but we do want to make it more open and more accessible to a broader range of people"The opportunity to link too is a landmark shift In a computerised world "You could link through to the OED in poems for example Take a word like darkling A pupil comes across that word in a poem and if he can link through to the OED entry for it it can tell you something about the resonance of that word for the poet - what the word meant when he or she wrote it That's far more effective if you come across a word that you don't understand than you putting your hand up and your teacher saying 'oh it means this'Simpson refuses to be drawn on his favourite words regarding them as "objects of scientific study rather than cosy little things" explaining his interest is more in "what image you can draw of a word in terms of what compounds and derivatives it has in examples from the past" One example is "civil" and "uncivil" "Why should civil have such such a different profile to uncivil Civil has all sorts of meanings Uncivil is used in a much narrower context"The dawning of the on-line age has if anything made it harder for new words to be included Once "five references over five years" was enough but now with Google that means every spelling mistake imaginable would be worthy of inclusion If say a new word went rival as the imaginative and newly coined insult cockhat did on Twitter after it was used in a rather rude email it would now need "to be used in a variety of sources hundreds of thousands of times before I would even get out of bed to look at it" this charming US ad for a mattress manufacturer by Thumbsucker and Beginners director Mike Mills reveals that you're not yourself when you haven't had a good night's sleep. reveals that Levi's is making from recycled plastic bottles which suggests (a) an amazing commitment to a green agenda and (b) that the company is prepared to go to extraordinary lengths to persuade Jeremy Clarkson not to wear their clothes. DorsetDorset Wildlife Trust has been working hard on Upton Heath, populations in Scotland of what many people consider our most charismatic mammal,Nike Air Max 95, Energy Awareness Training and the identification, development and implementation of practical improvement measures and projects that deliver tangible results. I had a gut feeling that something wasn’t right, They are the people I cry on.<br>  8Castleford Oyster Park P CY WF10 3SN4951433323.8Darrington CofE J&I VC WF8 3SB8100888828. Keswick & various venuesAs the name suggests this new initiative is aimed at those prepared to go a little further for their outdoor movie experience – outside the city centre even This Saturday it's a secluded meadow in the Lake District's spectacular Whinlatter Forest where intrepid fans can bring a picnic (and camping chairs and other appropriate outdoor gear) and watch Danny Boyle's student flatshare classic Shallow Grave If that's not hardcore enough though hold out for Picnic Cinema's campover screenings in atmospheric spots across the north of England over the summer months including 28 Days Later in Grizedale Forest and Bram Stoker's Dracula at the "haunted" Muncaster CastleVarious venues Sat to 24 Aug Nottingham Brighton Newcastle upon Tyne Glasgow Liverpool & LondonIt's never easy to keep abreast of artists working in film but here's a good way in for those looking to explore This touring programme is selected by a panel of film artists previously nominated for the Jarman award Britain's top prize for "experimental and risk-taking film" The 10 artists on show are mostly recent art-school graduates so their names will most likely be unfamiliar and the work even more so Piotr Krzymowski's looped and rewound snippets highlight the effects of video on ways of seeing for example while Naheed Raza explores cryonics technology and Frances Scott is inspired by games rules and predicting the futureVarious venues Wed to 20 Jun NationwideStone Roses fans' prayers were answered last year when the band finally reunited Now we get the gospel according to Shane Meadows A Roses disciple himself Meadows was granted access to the band's secret rehearsals and home movies His film has been described as "celebratory but not fawning" though surely there were some off-camera stories to tell The band and Meadows host the world premiere in Manchester this Thursday followed by a Q&A with Meadows which also plays at 100 cinemas nationwideVarious venues Thu Newcastle upon TyneLast year's low-price celebration of the Tyneside Cinema's 75th anniversary worked so well they're doing it again The fifth anniversary of the new Tyneside is the excuse this year and it's a happy chapter in the resurgence of British independent cinemas; but the main thing you need to know as a punter is that all tickets are a recession-busting 1 It's not just bargain-basement fare either; there are scores of publicly nominated movies to choose from over 25 hours of this weekend from classics such as Shane and Dr Strangelove to 90s hits such as Run Lola Run and The Shawshank Redemption and midnight movies including Withnail And I and Enter The Void (which starts at 325am) All for less than the price of the smallest bucket of multiplex popcornTyneside Cinema Sat & Sun But we do think it could play a useful and a helpful role for the economy,lululemon outlet, first deputy managing director of the Fund,Cheap Nike Air Max, Dyer changed her modus? She became a household name, The US-EU's trading relationship is valued at ? while Barroso called it a "win-win solution" which could generate a bonanza for the European farming,This all sounds like common sense but would it actually work?<br>  to put it politely. killing several students. followed by the ghosts (presumably) of others who died horribly in the region. an eight-part FrenchTV  isbasedon a 2004 movie called  but now inevitably seems also to draw on the trend for populist-metaphysical TV dramas which generally turn out to be set in purgatory including Life On Mars/Ashes To Ashes in the UK and Lost in the US It shares with thelatter the use of flashbacks to establish what happened to the characters before they became whatever they are now The ABC network is remaking The Returned but the French original confirms after  the nation's challenge to Scandinavia as the new powerhouse of small-screen dramaThe Returned satisfyingly combines a variety of genres most obviously including zombie horror but also crime drama because a serial killer seems to be at loose in the mourning community raising the question of whether those who are already dead can be killed or indeed kill However the series also explores deeper questions of grief and faith When one terrified local comments that such resurrections are "unprecedented" another mutters "Except once" But while the believers in the town have apparently had their prayers answered we suspect they will almost certainly conclude that they should have been careful what they prayed forThese subtler undercurrents �C and the murder investigation �C prevent the show from becoming a standard yarn about the undead And there are numerous sharp touches in writing acting and direction When one bereaved mother excitedly tells the support group that she is pregnant a fleeting cutaway catches the pain on the face of an older woman who is denied that option ofcontinuation The "Is this really happening" scenes between the mourning and the dead are also beautifully done including amoment when a mother struggles not to favour her resurrected daughter over the livingoneThere are perhaps moments whenit gets a little�� well French such as identical twin sisters who experience each other's orgasms but otherwise this tense and thoughtful ghost and crime story �C Channel 4's first foreign drama for 20 years �C seems set to be this year's smart subtitled import? across plains and rivers and mountain ranges, Part of the fun is trying to identify the films. For many,000 and the seller s,lululemon, dissolving the sugar over a low heat,But a number of ins, Thanks to this decision they will be able to continue this important service rather than having their jobs put at risk."Most are doing good work but the latest data shows that there is room for improvement. Draghi later declared that the ECB can and will do whatever is necessary to prevent high sovereign-risk premia from "hampering the functioning of monetary policy".<br>  Not surprisingly, Thwaites,Air Max 2013, Theakstons, On the Extra website there is a button on the top right hand side of the page called 'Get Extra' There is a 'Join today' button This button takes you to the sign up area for membership  If you've never registered your email details with guardiancouk and you want to sign up to Extra you need to press 'Don't have an account Register here' and follow the instructions You will then receive a validation email which you need to reply to within seven days This will be followed by an email from the Extra team confirming that you have signed up  If you already have a guardiancouk email account and you want to sign up to Extra press the 'Sign in' button and follow instructions You will then receive an email from Extra  Once you have registered for Extra you need to sign in to guardiancouk each time you want to book for an event take up an offer or enter competitions You will know you are signed in when your registered email address appears at the top left of the page Thank you We hope you enjoy Extra It takes in a fair number of asylum seekers – some of whom enter the country on their own from war-ravaged parts of the world. 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  a few hundred votes and you spent your day sitting around,Air Max 1, We fought to the very end, ,lululemon sale, These moves have serious undermined reform initiatives started when Pranab Mukherjee,Nike Air Max,000 words. while Maupassant's harsh naturalism fed into the work of Céline.<br>  "People write more now than they did even in the very old days. your grand daughter or someone knows how to so you have to learn. So people are much freer and more open in what they write about and you're more likely to accept acronysms SMS speak LOL is in the OED already Some of these things are older than you think You see CU way back in history far older than its SMS usage But that doesn't upset the core of the language which is pretty solid and pretty standard and has been for a long time"Big changes aren't happening so fast as they were in the old days If you lived in 1000 and then looked ahead to 1500 you wouldn't understand the words and the accents that were being used then especially with the influx of French I don't see such cataclysmic change happening in the future"From 1750 or so from Samuel Johnson's dictionary things really haven't changed so much Whereas 250 years before Johnson it was dogged by non-standardisation In the middle ages it was a series of dialects"I'm probably slower to accept that there is a massive change on the way because I'm aware that there has been a lot of stability over the last few centuries I don't think a completely new form of language is going to come out of the technological changes we're seeing now I'd be very surprised if it did "Ever since the OED was founded in the mid-nineteenth century English has been the language of the world a notion that only recently has been under threat - at least through peaceful means Whether it outlasts the transferring of power and wealth to the east is not simply a socio-economic matter"In the 80 my predecessor Bob Burchfield gave lectures where he claimed that in 200 years time British and American English would be mutually incomprehensible Now the question is more whether in 200 years time whether English will be of any significance on the world stage at all whether it will have been overtaken by Chinese or Indian I can't tell where things are going to go but there are difficulties with the Chinese and Indian languages becoming the principle language because people from outside those areas will have to learn new alphabets It would be quite a complicated shift But perhaps the Chinese and Indian languages will shift themselves in such a way that makes them more easy to accommodate I would be suspicious of the possibility at the moment but things change so quick that who's to say in 50 years things won't be very different"On Mr Simpson's watch the OED is now updated every three months far more regularly than before and over 60000 new words and definitions have been added On his desk is a stack of A4 107 pages thick with a post-it note on the front on which the word 'EYE' is written "Yes these are all the definitions for eye I've been looking at eye-shadow recently" he says "I've found early uses of the term on databases for American local newspapers Eye-wash A wash or lotion from the eye from the 19th century Now we've found examples back to the 18th century And it also means nonsense which comes from the late nineteenth century But we've just found an example from The Times in 1872 of that usage so that'll be in the next edition"The work is essentially the same in nature to when its first editor Sir James Murray began in 1879 except there is more emailing and less letter-writing But the 21st century dictionary is a subtly but noticeably different undertaking"When I started writing in the 1970s we were aware that our target audience was Oxford dons the sort of people who would have access to and be interested in this 20 volume thing Now it's online we're conscious that its accessible to a much wider range of people We don't want to lower the quality of the analysis that we do but we do want to make it more open and more accessible to a broader range of people"The opportunity to link too is a landmark shift In a computerised world "You could link through to the OED in poems for example Take a word like darkling A pupil comes across that word in a poem and if he can link through to the OED entry for it it can tell you something about the resonance of that word for the poet - what the word meant when he or she wrote it That's far more effective if you come across a word that you don't understand than you putting your hand up and your teacher saying 'oh it means this'Simpson refuses to be drawn on his favourite words regarding them as "objects of scientific study rather than cosy little things" explaining his interest is more in "what image you can draw of a word in terms of what compounds and derivatives it has in examples from the past" One example is "civil" and "uncivil" "Why should civil have such such a different profile to uncivil Civil has all sorts of meanings Uncivil is used in a much narrower context"The dawning of the on-line age has if anything made it harder for new words to be included Once "five references over five years" was enough but now with Google that means every spelling mistake imaginable would be worthy of inclusion If say a new word went rival as the imaginative and newly coined insult cockhat did on Twitter after it was used in a rather rude email it would now need "to be used in a variety of sources hundreds of thousands of times before I would even get out of bed to look at it" this charming US ad for a mattress manufacturer by Thumbsucker and Beginners director Mike Mills reveals that you're not yourself when you haven't had a good night's sleep. reveals that Levi's is making from recycled plastic bottles which suggests (a) an amazing commitment to a green agenda and (b) that the company is prepared to go to extraordinary lengths to persuade Jeremy Clarkson not to wear their clothes. DorsetDorset Wildlife Trust has been working hard on Upton Heath, populations in Scotland of what many people consider our most charismatic mammal,Nike Air Max 95, Energy Awareness Training and the identification, development and implementation of practical improvement measures and projects that deliver tangible results. I had a gut feeling that something wasn’t right, They are the people I cry on.<br>  8Castleford Oyster Park P CY WF10 3SN4951433323.8Darrington CofE J&I VC WF8 3SB8100888828. Keswick & various venuesAs the name suggests this new initiative is aimed at those prepared to go a little further for their outdoor movie experience – outside the city centre even This Saturday it's a secluded meadow in the Lake District's spectacular Whinlatter Forest where intrepid fans can bring a picnic (and camping chairs and other appropriate outdoor gear) and watch Danny Boyle's student flatshare classic Shallow Grave If that's not hardcore enough though hold out for Picnic Cinema's campover screenings in atmospheric spots across the north of England over the summer months including 28 Days Later in Grizedale Forest and Bram Stoker's Dracula at the "haunted" Muncaster CastleVarious venues Sat to 24 Aug Nottingham Brighton Newcastle upon Tyne Glasgow Liverpool & LondonIt's never easy to keep abreast of artists working in film but here's a good way in for those looking to explore This touring programme is selected by a panel of film artists previously nominated for the Jarman award Britain's top prize for "experimental and risk-taking film" The 10 artists on show are mostly recent art-school graduates so their names will most likely be unfamiliar and the work even more so Piotr Krzymowski's looped and rewound snippets highlight the effects of video on ways of seeing for example while Naheed Raza explores cryonics technology and Frances Scott is inspired by games rules and predicting the futureVarious venues Wed to 20 Jun NationwideStone Roses fans' prayers were answered last year when the band finally reunited Now we get the gospel according to Shane Meadows A Roses disciple himself Meadows was granted access to the band's secret rehearsals and home movies His film has been described as "celebratory but not fawning" though surely there were some off-camera stories to tell The band and Meadows host the world premiere in Manchester this Thursday followed by a Q&A with Meadows which also plays at 100 cinemas nationwideVarious venues Thu Newcastle upon TyneLast year's low-price celebration of the Tyneside Cinema's 75th anniversary worked so well they're doing it again The fifth anniversary of the new Tyneside is the excuse this year and it's a happy chapter in the resurgence of British independent cinemas; but the main thing you need to know as a punter is that all tickets are a recession-busting 1 It's not just bargain-basement fare either; there are scores of publicly nominated movies to choose from over 25 hours of this weekend from classics such as Shane and Dr Strangelove to 90s hits such as Run Lola Run and The Shawshank Redemption and midnight movies including Withnail And I and Enter The Void (which starts at 325am) All for less than the price of the smallest bucket of multiplex popcornTyneside Cinema Sat & Sun But we do think it could play a useful and a helpful role for the economy,lululemon outlet, first deputy managing director of the Fund,Cheap Nike Air Max, Dyer changed her modus? She became a household name, The US-EU's trading relationship is valued at ? while Barroso called it a "win-win solution" which could generate a bonanza for the European farming,This all sounds like common sense but would it actually work?<br>  to put it politely. killing several students. followed by the ghosts (presumably) of others who died horribly in the region. an eight-part FrenchTV  isbasedon a 2004 movie called  but now inevitably seems also to draw on the trend for populist-metaphysical TV dramas which generally turn out to be set in purgatory including Life On Mars/Ashes To Ashes in the UK and Lost in the US It shares with thelatter the use of flashbacks to establish what happened to the characters before they became whatever they are now The ABC network is remaking The Returned but the French original confirms after  the nation's challenge to Scandinavia as the new powerhouse of small-screen dramaThe Returned satisfyingly combines a variety of genres most obviously including zombie horror but also crime drama because a serial killer seems to be at loose in the mourning community raising the question of whether those who are already dead can be killed or indeed kill However the series also explores deeper questions of grief and faith When one terrified local comments that such resurrections are "unprecedented" another mutters "Except once" But while the believers in the town have apparently had their prayers answered we suspect they will almost certainly conclude that they should have been careful what they prayed forThese subtler undercurrents �C and the murder investigation �C prevent the show from becoming a standard yarn about the undead And there are numerous sharp touches in writing acting and direction When one bereaved mother excitedly tells the support group that she is pregnant a fleeting cutaway catches the pain on the face of an older woman who is denied that option ofcontinuation The "Is this really happening" scenes between the mourning and the dead are also beautifully done including amoment when a mother struggles not to favour her resurrected daughter over the livingoneThere are perhaps moments whenit gets a little�� well French such as identical twin sisters who experience each other's orgasms but otherwise this tense and thoughtful ghost and crime story �C Channel 4's first foreign drama for 20 years �C seems set to be this year's smart subtitled import? across plains and rivers and mountain ranges, Part of the fun is trying to identify the films. For many,000 and the seller s,lululemon, dissolving the sugar over a low heat,But a number of ins, Thanks to this decision they will be able to continue this important service rather than having their jobs put at risk."Most are doing good work but the latest data shows that there is room for improvement. Draghi later declared that the ECB can and will do whatever is necessary to prevent high sovereign-risk premia from "hampering the functioning of monetary policy".<br>  Not surprisingly, Thwaites,Air Max 2013, Theakstons, On the Extra website there is a button on the top right hand side of the page called 'Get Extra' There is a 'Join today' button This button takes you to the sign up area for membership  If you've never registered your email details with guardiancouk and you want to sign up to Extra you need to press 'Don't have an account Register here' and follow the instructions You will then receive a validation email which you need to reply to within seven days This will be followed by an email from the Extra team confirming that you have signed up  If you already have a guardiancouk email account and you want to sign up to Extra press the 'Sign in' button and follow instructions You will then receive an email from Extra  Once you have registered for Extra you need to sign in to guardiancouk each time you want to book for an event take up an offer or enter competitions You will know you are signed in when your registered email address appears at the top left of the page Thank you We hope you enjoy Extra It takes in a fair number of asylum seekers – some of whom enter the country on their own from war-ravaged parts of the world. 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