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Q&A How do I keep up with current written English language?

If you want to keep up with written English, read newspapers and magazines (preferably weekly, but also monthly). Newspapers, meant to be daily, cover news, politics, opinions, business, human int...

posted 13y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T02:04:46Z (almost 5 years ago)
If you want to keep up with written English, read newspapers and magazines (preferably weekly, but also monthly).

Newspapers, meant to be daily, cover news, politics, opinions, business, human interest, tech, medicine, sports, and entertainment (among many other subjects). New terms can enter from any angle.

Magazines can either be weekly or monthly. Weekly magazines will be a little fresher with their use of slang; monthly magazines are usually more niche-oriented and will be heavier with jargon from a particular industry or hobby. If some phrase has reached a monthly magazine, it's more likely to be entrenched in the lexicon, since publication lead time is two to three months.

Most periodicals have websites where some or all of their content is reproduced.

Entertainment periodicals will have more creative writing than news outlets, but you can find creative writing in the opinion sections as well. Monthly magazines can have a fiction component.

Just off the top of my head, I can suggest (note that this does not imply endorsement of content):

- The New York Times
- The Los Angeles Times
- The Washington Post
- The Chicago Tribune
- Entertainment Weekly
- Newsweek
- Time
- The New Yorker
- The Atlantic
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