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Depending on your interest in the British royal family, last autumn’s news of Prince Harry’s engagement to Meghan Markle may not have overly grabbed your attention. I wasn’t exactly seeking out in-depth analysis of their impending nuptials, but I couldn’t help getting drawn in by an article in the Guardian…

  When I first started writing this blog I drew up a hit list of topics which I hoped to write about. Most of the entries on this list were no more than the germ of an idea, something language-related which I wanted to know more about. And an early…

  Society and culture frequently move at a pace which leaves language flailing in their tracks. And so it is with the vocabulary around gender. In case you have been hiding under a rock, gender politics are a hot topic and the issues relating to gender identity and gender roles…

Catalonia has been very much in the news over recent months and the debate about its political relationship with the rest of Spain is still ongoing. Despite having visited the area several times, I realised I was woefully ignorant about the linguistic make-up of the region. So this week’s blog…

As the current economic situation calls for careful decisions, more and more institutions and companies are reverting to procurement processes to select the best resources to take care of tasks they are unable to or simply do not have time to get done. You may be asked to respond to…

As an avid knitter and occasional crocheter, I was really excited recently to deploy my yarn-related knowledge to translating knitting patterns for a publishing company. Technique The target audience for the translated patterns was very much the general crafter and hobby knitter rather than an advanced fairisle sock knitting maestro.…

New Manila Office Perhaps the most momentous event of the year for us in terms of its impact on our future is the opening of our new operations base in Manila. We have had a very successful accounts outpost there for a decade, and we finally decided to roll out…

    With Christmas looming this blog post encourages you to get in the kitchen and rustle up a festive treat or two. Rosetta’s global offices each get an entry here with a traditional dish for each location. London Nothing could be more British than a mince pie with its…

  For a little while now, I have been contemplating writing something about the way different languages are related to each other. Then I stumbled across this beautiful linguistic family tree and I knew this was the moment. What a glorious thing it is. If ever a non-linguist asks you…

Avid readers of these blog posts will have spotted that I have a bit of a thing about running. Maybe even a slight obsession about running! Getting out there running on the streets and trails, reading about running, watching running, thinking about running. And then just occasionally running and language…