Tag: halloween
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The Spookier Side of the Oxford Australian Children’s Word of the Year
Children have vivid imaginations, and this was nowhere more apparent than in the Oxford Children’s Word of the Year writing competition. Students from primary schools across Australia were invited to submit a piece of writing about a topic of their choice. While there were fairies and unicorns, there was also a darker side to the…
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From fear to fascination – how I learnt to love horror
By Jordan Irving, Editorial Coordinator, OUP Higher Education I’ve always had a complicated relationship with the horror genre. As a child, I was preternaturally afraid – especially after dark. I remember falling asleep and looking at the crack in my doorway where the light shone from the hallway (because I could never fall asleep with…
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Halloween word-play
Ghost We all know the most commonly-used meaning of the noun ‘ghost’. According to Oxford Dictionaries, a ghost is ‘an apparition of a dead person which is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image’. But are you as familiar with the verb, used in a relationship sense? To…