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Haitch or aitch? How a humble letter was held hostage by historical haughtiness

  • Written by: Kate Burridge, Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies and Professor of Linguistics, Monash University
Haitch or aitch? How a humble letter was held hostage by historical haughtiness"Aitch" or "Haitch"? It's long been a point of contestation among English speakers.Felicity Burke/The Conversastion with apologies to Dr. Suess

Like Dr. Seuss’ Star-Belly Sneetches and Plain-Belly Sneetches, there are two types of creatures — haitchers with H on their 8th letter name and aitchers with “none upon thars”.

That...

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Five things parents can do to improve their children's eating patterns

  • Written by: Clare Collins, Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
Five things parents can do to improve their children's eating patternsToddlers diets are strongly correlated with their mum's diet. from www.shutterstock.com

Eating habits develop in early childhood. Research shows eating patterns can continue into adolescence and then through to adulthood. In a new study, we compared what children aged two to three years ate with what their mothers ate.

We also looked at what...

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Many Australian school students feel they 'don't belong' in school: new research

  • Written by: Sue Thomson, Director, Educational Monitoring and Research Division; Research Director, Australian Surveys Research Program, Australian Council for Educational Research

A report released today by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), the managers of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) in Australia, explores Australian students’ sense of belonging. This has been shown to play a big part in academic success at school.

Australian students, on average, reported a poorer...

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Live sheep exporters get longer 'grace' period for sub-standard ships

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Live sheep exporters get longer 'grace' period for sub-standard shipsThe Al Shuwaikh is one of the Kuwait Livestock Transport and Trading ships that has its standards grandfathered.Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC-SA

The government has extended by a year the time it is giving exporters with old ships to continue with sub-standard conditions for sheep carried to the Middle East.

Exporters were to be provided with a grace...

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  2. What's driving the sky-high child marriage rates in South Sudan
  3. Kate Spade, the archetypal New Yorker, sold whimsical, affordable luxury to women
  4. Paramedics need more support to deal with daily trauma
  5. three things you should know about volcano risk
  6. the quiet rise of gender-neutral toys
  7. Despite strong words, the US has few options left to reverse China's gains in the South China Sea
  8. Making a global agenda work locally for healthy, sustainable living in tropical Australia
  9. ANU's new entrance criteria won't do much to improve equity
  10. Why do our ears pop?
  11. Deterring cyber attacks: old problems, new solutions
  12. The world’s economic crisis-fighting mechanisms are dangerously inadequate
  13. Greens release annual figures for income tax package
  14. Turnbull wants Joyce to have continuing 'prominent role' in public life
  15. The flu vaccine is being oversold – it's not that effective
  16. why Chinese telecoms participating in Australia's 5G network could be a problem
  17. Labor trailing in Longman and Braddon, and how Senate changes helped the Coalition
  18. No evidence that sexbots reduce harms to women and children
  19. Airbnb regulation needs to distinguish between sharing and plain old commercial letting
  20. The House of Bernada Alba is an extraordinary portrait of imposed silence and female misogyny
  21. Why industrial manslaughter laws are unlikely to save lives in the workplace
  22. five medicinal plants used by Aboriginal Australians
  23. Australian drama in the 1970s
  24. Traditional Aboriginal healers should work alongside doctors to help close the gap
  25. Combining the facial recognition decisions of humans and computers can prevent costly mistakes
  26. Fed up with always being in the slow queue? That's why queues are being 'designed out'
  27. How changes to UK law may provide more dual citizenship drama
  28. To improve internships and placements, embed technology in their design
  29. Many women with breast cancer may not need chemo, but beware misleading headlines
  30. Public Service Commissioner targeted over IPA links resigns
  31. Why hip fractures in the elderly are often a death sentence
  32. Remember Turnbull's 2015 'ideas boom'? We're still only part way there
  33. How stigma impacts LGB health and wellbeing in Australia
  34. Caring for elderly Australians in a home-like setting can reduce hospital visits
  35. Growing cities face challenges of keeping the masses moving up, down and across
  36. Australia needs to reset the relationship with China and stay cool
  37. Fear not, shoppers: Amazon's Australian geoblock won't cramp your style
  38. Hitchcock's Psycho and the power of jarring music
  39. understanding online commenting culture shows us how to improve it
  40. New Zealand's productivity commission charts course to low-emission future
  41. Joyce admits he knew as soon as Campion was pregnant that he'd lose his job
  42. the tallest flowering plant in the world
  43. The faster you walk, the better for long term health – especially as you age
  44. The Coalition's income tax cuts will help the rich more, but in a decade everyone pays more anyway
  45. strategic anxieties about rising China
  46. A survey needs to involve how many people before I'm convinced?
  47. Michelle Grattan on Barnaby Joyce's TV deal, Greg Hunt's temperament and One Nation in a pickle
  48. when art, freedom of speech and social media collide
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