The Queen's English is no longer so posh: researcher
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Queen Elizabeth II's famous cut-glass accent, the Queen's English, is now sounding less upper-class, a scientific analysis of her famous Christmas broadcasts found.
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Prince Charles is &quot;old-fashioned&quot; and out of touch with Britain&#39;s education system, a cabinet minister said Thursday.
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The amount of official material translated should be cut to encourage people to learn English, Ruth Kelly says.
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By MICHAEL HELLICAR  Ever since they started persuading us to spell Mallorca with a double 'l' to get rid of that old, rather frowned-upon English pronunciation 'Majorca', the island seems to have got posher and posher.
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The Queen&#39;s &quot;reconciliatory&quot; state visit to Germany was overshadowed yesterday by embarrassing revelations that the Berlin venue chosen to welcome her with an official banquet was
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Mother tongue menaced by 'product-set deep dives' Readers of the Daily Telegraph have got themselves into a bit of a tizz over alleged abuses our our beloved English language.â¦
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Undergraduates in England spend less time studying than their European counterparts, a report suggests.
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Royal historian David Starkey delivers less than rose-tinted verdict on the head of state
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A UK social atlas suggests that British society is becoming more segregated by class, researchers have said.
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The British critic A A. Gill loves the English language but detests the English people.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II reads the legislative program from the throne to the assembled House of Lords in London in this Wednesday, June 20, 2001 file photo.Comment
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The Queen called for tolerance between Britain's different cultural and religious groups.
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Lithuania is thinking about changing its name in English to something easier to pronounce in plans to boost its image, officials said on Friday.
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The enlargement of the European Union from 15 to 25 member-states with nine new languages has created a kind of linguistic big bang in Brussels, with new headaches for intepreters.
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A combination of poorer schools and a rise in local dialects has hurt English proficiency in the Phillipines.
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The queen, hoping to further reconciliation between Britain and Germany, has urged the two former World War Two foes to learn from history but not be obsessed by the past and to reject national stereotypes.
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Whether English is America&#039;s &quot;national language&quot; or its national &quot;common and unifying language&quot; was a question dominating the Senate immigration debate.