Quick guide: Age discrimination Monday, 25 September, 2006 Laws banning age discrimination in the workplace come into effect on 1 October 2006. It is the latest type of discrimination to be tackled after race and sex discrimination. The government wants...

'Fat' soprano back on opera stage Tuesday, 17 June 2008 14:01 UK Soprano Deborah Voigt has returned to London's Royal Opera House, four years after she was fired for being too big. The decision led to a debate in 2004 about weight discrimination in opera....

Fighting for the right to be fat Tuesday, 5 March, 2002, 12:17 GMT Jennifer Portnick: 'Judge me only on what I can do' If you are good enough to get a job, should it matter if you are fat? One woman's claim that her human rights are at stake could change...

Appearance-based discrimination in the United States http://www.hollandhart.com/articles/ELALooksPollCharts23_16_2005.pdf

Our Wealth of English Homonyms, by Helen Bowyer. Owe that eye mite bee that be Winging hur weigh oar the see, Oar the waives sew bright and blew, With the fishes glinting threw, Sea-ing pour-poises at play, Here-ing the see-hoarses nay, Passing I-lands...

WHY ENGLISH IS SO HARD TO LEARN We must polish the Polish furniture. He could lead if he would get the lead out. The farm was used to produce produce. The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse. The soldier decided to desert in the desert....

Phoney Phonetics. One reason why I cannot spell, Although I learned the rules quite well Is that some words like coup and through Sound just like threw and flue and Who; When oo is never spelled the same, The duice becomes a guessing game; And then I...

Our Strange Lingo When the English tongue we speak. Why is break not rhymed with freak? Will you tell me why it's true We say sew but likewise few? And the maker of the verse, Cannot rhyme his horse with worse? Beard is not the same as heard Cord is different...