Postcode lottery for speech therapy, says commissioner
England’s children’s commissioner highlights “enormous variation” in money spent across the regions....
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Motivational Speeches before Battle
Churchill, of course, was capable of giving a rousing speech. Here are a few classics: “Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatu...
Pro-life student society approved at Birmingham University amid row over freedom of speech
Anti-abortion group is now hoping to set up a society to ensure both sides are represented...
Anti-Brexit MEP dropped from debate for criticising Tory MP calls on Oxford vice-chancellor to defend free speech
‘University should not accept this kind of behaviour lightly’...
Charts of Speech
Write a story or scene using at least three words from each list. (You will be awarded with bonus imaginary internet points if you can use more.) ADJECTIVEScrypticimaginativevulgarelegantcautiousextraordinarypretentiousintactlush VERBScrump...
Punctuating Character A’s reaction in Character B’s speech
Definitely separate paragraphs, because each speaker always gets their own line unless people are shouting an identical thing in unison. If there’s an interruption–as in, the other person interrupts the first person’s sent...
Use of Abbreviations in Narration Speech
Hello, English native forum friends. I’m opening this post because I’m in doubt about the use of the regular sci-fi abbreviations in third person narration.Some usual abbreviation examples: lab = laboratorymod / modi = body modi...
Turn Text to Speech With the Voicepods Chrome Extension
A couple of months ago I discovered a new text to speech tool called Voicepods. When I first tried it and wrote about it Voicepods would only create voice recordings based on text that you wrote. This week Voicepods launched a free Chrome e...
‘Offensive’ student T-shirts are ‘hate speech’
Students from Lancaster University were pictured wearing T-shirts with rape and child abuse references....
Parts of Speech Quest
ABCya offers hundreds of fun and educational games for elementary school kids. Parts of Speech Quest is one of the games that was recently featured on ABCya’s homepage. Parts of Speech Quest is a series of nine games that, depending u...