Editor's Corner: The Bard and I

Editor's Corner: The Bard and I

Do you think that this editor would forget THEE William Shakespeare’s birthday? Of course not; what kind of schoolteacher/editor would I be if I didn’t share some sonnets to commemorate April 23?

The Bard at the UN: Celebrating English Language Day

By Dr Satish C Aikant Every year on April 23 the English Language Day is celebrated at the United Nations. The day is believed to be the birthday, as well as the anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, popularly known as the Bard of Avon, after Stratford-upon-Avon, the place of his birth in England. The story of the English language began in the fifth century when Germanic tribes invaded Celtic-speaking Britain and brought their languag…