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  Dear fellow linguists and interpreters, You are cordially invited to secure your place at Say It Global Translations’ first online community event on September 24th at 4pm CEST (3pm BST). The event will look at the work of a medical interpreter (SP<>EN) in a role-play event between a doctor and patient, featuring esteemed Dr Richard Simons of the George Washington…

Language, Communities and Trivia – Part 2 Part 2 of our blog about language, communities and trivia looks at how different languages bring communities together, but also can find themselves under threat as a result. Numerous words, of course, are borrowed and absorbed from other languages into the native lexicon (and not just English), reflecting…

Language, Communities and Trivia – Part I Say It Global Translations is working hard to be a community of linguists, professionals, language students, experts and language lovers from all over the world, who can be part of a safe language community hub with access to talks, resources, learning tools, work projects and a “language lounge”,…

  In the 1820s, when an official police force was first established in London by Robert Peel (Bobby is short for Robert – hence policemen became known as bobbies, as in the phrase “a bobby on the beat”), a secret localised collection of phrases was developed by London’s East Enders, where crime and mischief were…

Without knowing it, most people use many established sayings in their everyday chat without ever having considered the meaning or origin of such phrases. Many can be traced back in the mists of time to medieval England or to particular people or events. Their semantic journey may have altered the original definition, but language and…