English Time with Yves

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtItMwwoiVY&t=19s Staring sheepishly down the camera lens with his shoulders hunched , Hugh Grant looked awkward to say the least. But then this was not a typical photocall. Instead, Grant was having his mugshot taken in a   Los Angeles   police station after being arrested for having sex in his car with Divine Brown. The British actor, who had just shot to stardom playing the lead role in  Four Weddings and a Funeral,  had spectacularly    fallen  from grace , thanks to a moment of “insanity”, as he described it, with the sex worker and now faced the possibility of six months in jail for participating in “ lewd conduct” in a public place. Grant was meant to be in Hollywood to promote his latest film,  Nine Months , when he decided, as a local paper said, “to take a walk on the wild side”, cruising down LA’s notorious Sunset Strip at night. It was here that he met Divine Brown (real name Estella Marie ...

  Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZKcHadAbjo The English language has been evolving for centuries, if not for millennia. Conversations from the Middle Ages would be almost unrecognisable today. In particular, the use and meaning of vocabulary is in constant flux. The British charity Oxfam has issued a guide that further pushes for changes in how the language is used, especially by charity workers. Oxfam wants to "decolonise" English, which it considers to be, "the language of a colonising nation". It said English needs to change "in order to decolonise our ways of working and shift power". Oxfam has issued a 92-page "Inclusive Language Guide" to advise employees on the use of language "to support everyone to feel empowered to be inclusive in their work". Oxfam was founded in 1942 to help alleviate global poverty. It now operates in more than 80 countries worldwide. Its new guide recognises the reality that English is the domin...