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20th October 2010

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by Leigh Turner

Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Vienna

Brainiacs, dwarf planets, podcasts and tweets in Kyiv

What do brainiacs, dwarf planets, podcasts and tweets have in common?  They’re the top four new words added to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.  I am speaking at the Ukrainian launch of the 8th Edition at the Hyatt in Kyiv, and the room is packed with several hundred English language teachers from all regions of the […]

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