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Renaming of Red Skins and Chicos is a shaky step towards leaving discriminatory ideas in the past

Nestle This week, it was announced two types of Allen’s lollies, Red Skins and Chicos, will be known from January 2021 as Red Ripper...

Why would anyone shiver their timbers? Here’s how pirate words arrr preserving old language

The signature pirate voice is from the West Country in south-west of England. But why West Country? IMDb There’s no shortage of special days...

Wordslut: a new book aims to ‘verbally smash the patriarchy’, but its argument is imprecise

In Wordslut, Amanda Montell deconstructs gendered language. Shutterstock In her book Wordslut, Amanda Montell argues that patriarchal assumptions deny women an active role in...