The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was originally written as a radio script, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978 in 6 episodes
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Discover how we monitor and research language in order to decide which words to include in our dictionaries.

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Test your spelling skills with this interactive spelling game, with difficulty levels ranging from tricky to fiendish.
In the 2004 film Mean Girls, high school queen bee Regina George famously chastises one of her minions for using a slang