{"id":932,"date":"2010-11-12T13:23:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T13:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=932"},"modified":"2010-11-11T23:29:11","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T23:29:11","slug":"evolving-english-at-the-british-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/12\/evolving-english-at-the-british-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolving English at the British Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/British-Library.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/British-Library.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"British Library\" width=\"57\" height=\"111\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-933\" \/><\/a>A new exhibition at the British Library raises the question of how we ought to use the English language, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/8126403\/Evolving-English-One-Language-Many-Voices-British-Library-review.html \">this review<\/a> in the <em>Telegraph<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Opening today, the exhibition is titled <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/evolvingenglish\/about.html\">Evolving English<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, and runs until 3rd April 2011. Among the 130 exhibition pieces are \u201ceverday texts\u201d alongside \u2018star items\u2019 such as a BBC Broadcast English publication from 1929. The 1,000 year old sole manuscript of Beowulf is also included. <\/p>\n<p>Associated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/evolvingenglish\/allevents.html\">events<\/a> include a performance of Beowulf by Benjamin Bagby and a discussion of the future of English. The website includes a fun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/evolvingenglish\/quiz.html \">quiz<\/a> to test knowledge of the \u201corigins, evolution and oddities of the English language\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>You can read the Evolving English Curator\u2019s Blog <a href=\"http:\/\/britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk\/evolvingenglish\/about-this-blog.html \">here<\/a>. The exhibition is free, and well worth a visit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new exhibition at the British Library raises the question of how we ought to use the English language, according to this review in the Telegraph. Opening today, the exhibition is titled Evolving English, and runs until 3rd April 2011. Among the 130 exhibition pieces are \u201ceverday texts\u201d alongside \u2018star items\u2019 such as a BBC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3,35],"tags":[900,3,813,901,902],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-english","category-events","tag-british-library-exhibition","tag-english","tag-english-language","tag-events-2","tag-evolving-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}