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This interesting and quite sweet article on the evolution of the rabbit as symbol of Easter gives us an excuse, if needed, to wish all our customers and friends a very happy Easter from all the team at English Proofread.

📢 Call for Papers Alert! 📝

Futureworks, Manchester, UK are seeking thought-provoking abstracts for 20-minute presentations covering topics like AI creativity, transhumanism, consciousness, copyright, ethics, and more! Submit your 250-word abstract, 50-word bio, and 5 keywords to joe.darlington@futureworks.ac.uk by February 29th, 2024. 🤖✨

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ACS and Elsevier, members of the Coalition for Responsible Sharing, have agreed to a legal settlement with ResearchGate that ensures copyright-compliant sharing of research articles published with ACS or Elsevier on the ResearchGate site.

Subscribe to our new YouTube channel for interesting linguistic content to tickle your grey cells. Don’t forget to go to our document submission page here to get a quote.

Take a look at the fabulous Online Etymology Dictionary website exploring histories of words.

Please click here for a useful guide (with examples) from the University of Cambridge on the types of academic research contracts they generally negotiate and draft that are tailored for specific projects.

URGENT NOTE TO ALL JOURNAL EDITORS AND ACADEMIC AUTHORS: most unfortunately, we have been alerted to the fact that a number of academics based in Kazakhstan have been fraudulently copying and attempting to reproduce our PDF Certificates of Proofreading, then sending these fake documents along with their papers to academic journals. We would urge all journal editors to contact our Admin Team directly at contact@englishproofread.com to confirm the authenticity of each certificate supplied with any paper submission.

As a result of this, it is with regret that we will no longer be issuing PDF Certificates of Proofreading directly to authors. We can however supply confirmation of authenticity directly to journal editors subject to all GDPR (2018) checks and author authorization – full details of how to request this will be supplied on return of proofread manuscripts.

Words you did not know came from… the Vikings.

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RIP Queen Elizabeth II.

If you have ever wondered what most middle class or upper class English (not British) grandparents sounded like, listen to this BBC broadcast here made when Princess Elizabeth was 14 years old in 1940. We call this a ‘cut-glass’ accent.

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