REMEMBERING DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Lady Diana, never-to-be-forgotten Princess of Wales, in a Paris car crash.

Twenty years ago, her death stunned the world. From the shocking announcement of the news to her funeral procession lined by a million-strong crowd, that tumultuous week shocked Britain – and the monarchy. Read here. 

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS

This is a romantic comedy about a nostalgic screenwriter who is on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family and has experiences there that change his life. In fact, he finds himself puzzlingly going back to the 1920s every day at midnight. Here you can read The New York Times review of the movie.

This film is sort of a daydream for American lit majors. It opens with a couple on holiday in Paris with her parents. Gil and Inez are officially in love, but maybe what Gil really loves is Paris in the springtime. He's a hack screenwriter from Hollywood who still harbors the dream of someday writing a good novel and joining the pantheon of American writers whose ghosts seem to linger in the very air he breathes: Fitzgerald, Hemingway and the other legends of Paris in the 1920s.  Continue reading here.

https://ling.online/en/video/films/midnight-in-paris-2011/

SILENT LETTERS IN ENGLISH

The English language has lots of silent letters which  cause difficulties for both native speakers and English learners, because they make the spelling of words different from their pronunciation. Read here.

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