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    It doesn't matter whether you are writing a casual email, an important job application letter or copy for your website, producing something that is free from grammatical and spelling errors is critical. Read our proofreading tips here.
  • The Ballad of Britain, by Will Hodgkinson
    You may have heard of Cecil Sharp, pioneer collector of folk music at the turn of the 19th century, he of C# House in deepest Camden, the home of the English Folk Dance and Song Society. Beards, sandals, dirndls – no longer – or not exclusively. But have you heard of William Kimber? If it hadn’t been for an encounter with Kimber and his Morris side in Headington Quarry in 1899, Sharp would not have started his life’s work of taking a portable shellac cylinder recorder to capture traditional songs when their survival was in doubt. Nothing is ever so simple as that,...

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The contemporary important writing not of alphabetic type is that in Chinese characters, in which thousands of symbols are used, each representing a word or concept, and Japanese, where each character represents a syllable.