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HENRY HIGGINS
'The Eagle Has Landed' author Jack Higgins passes away at 92Other titles included 'The Eagle Has Flown', 'Angel of Death', 'Day of Reckoning', etc.
11 Apr, 2022, 08.51 AM IST
Linguistic twist to post-Brexit tale: Only Rani's 'angrezi' acceptable in BritainSome person, or persons put up a problematic notice in a block of council flats.
06 Feb, 2020, 09.40 AM IST
Monkeying around with accentsResearch is revealing that our primate cousins are more like us than we admit.
29 Oct, 2019, 08.30 AM IST
Mon Dieu! C’est bon Franglais. Oh, really?‘Brexit’ adds fresh heat to the ever febrile Anglo-French war of words.
14 Sep, 2019, 08.08 AM IST
When President Macron's mandarin set the toneUS President Donald Trump is no Herbert Hoover — the only Potus who was a proficient Chinese speaker — so he adroitly showed a clip of his ...
09 Jan, 2018, 10.26 PM IST
Are drunks and cops best judges of English?The Delhi Police’s revelation that a man was allegedly beaten up by five inebriated louts for speaking to his friend in “fluent English” is...
12 Sep, 2017, 11.05 PM IST
What happens next in the global financial markets depends on the price of oil"Looking ahead, the depth of Russia's problems and the consequences for the global financial markets will obviously depend on what happens ...
17 Dec, 2014, 12.52 PM IST
Swiss mystery in Ben Okri's new novelBen Okri takes readers on a magical journey with unexpected, poetic and metaphysical revelations in his new novel.
24 Nov, 2014, 03.47 PM IST
Indians-dominated Vatican cricket team ready for England tourVatican's "underdog" cricket team was given an official blessing by the Pope yesterday, as it prepares to travel to Britain.
10 Sep, 2014, 04.33 PM IST
Of men, women and their interchanged identitiesWomen want men who can cook and are not much attached to gadgets, particularly in a domestic setting, though being utterly devoid of gizmos...
08 Jan, 2014, 06.26 AM IST
- Contagious inflections
The most effective way to communicate is to speak in the same accent if not the same language.
09 Dec, 2010, 07.00 AM IST