Seke, Wakhi and Nahuatl are just some of the languages at risk of disappearing in a matter of decades. On “The Intelligence”, Lane Greene dives into one group’s efforts to save them econ.st/3JBW6ti

After reading the manuscript of the engaging, erudite and unique biography of Madrid by Luke Stegemann to to be published in August by Yale Univ Press I have enthusiastically endorsed for the back cover. Hugh Elliott Alex Ellis Jeremy Cliffe Lane Greene Real Instituto Elcano Charles Powell

Portugal celebrates the 50th anniversary of its 'Carnation' Revolution. My take for Real Instituto Elcano with some references to Spain's very different transition to democracy. Embassy of Spain UK Jeremy Cliffe Barney Jopson Lane Greene
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Thanks, Polity, for sending me advance copy of this book by Geoff Pullum. I’ve often felt there’s an absence of a reliable introduction to English grammar for intelligent laypeople, assuming no prior knowledge. This is it. It’s brilliant, by a giant of modern linguistics.

Welcome back Johnson, The Economist’s language column, not Boris. ⁦Lane Greene⁩ economist.com/culture/2024/0…

I scored 43 out of 50 points on Dateline, The Economist history game!

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Can you do better? economist.com/dateline

As Pedro Sánchez's new minority government gets going, this wide-ranging Real Instituto Elcano report by William Chislett is an excellent primer on the challenges ahead:

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For anyone needing to get up to speed with Spain, I can think of no better way to spend an hour than with William Chislett's great sweeping working paper, with its frank assessments of what works, and what needs work.
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Thoughts on booming Madrid: economist.com/europe/2024/02…

'...an alternative to Strunk and White...' Praise indeed for Lane Greene and his Writing with Style Profile Books

The history of The Economist's style guide, from a modest 1952 style sheet through the first public book in 1985, all the way to WRITING WITH STYLE. economist.com/news/2024/01/2…

Is beauty in the ear of the beholder? On “The Intelligence”, Lane Greene dissects what makes a language attractive econ.st/3HvMKyb

Wonderful to see #JohnMcWhorter mention WRITING WITH STYLE by Lane Greene in his latest The New York Times column on plagiarism: “It’s a lovely book, by the way. I vigorously recommend it as an alternative to Strunk and White’s THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE.” ✍️nytimes.com/2024/01/23/opi…

In case you missed That Word Chat's episode on 2023 Words of the Year, it's now on YouTube. Featuring Grant Barrett, Lane Greene, Lynne Murphy, Wendalyn Nichols, Peter Sokolowski, and Kelly 🔥 By Any Means 🔥 Wright + me repping American Dialect Society. #ThatWordChat #woty2023 youtube.com/watch?v=Ow5I5A…

If you have recently completed a doctorate, are working on contemporary Spain, and want to spend a year at St Antony’s College (Oxford), this may be of interest: