A Colwyn Bay woman has spoken of her experience of hearing loss as part of Deaf Awareness Week May 3-9. In the UK alone, 1 in 5 people experience it and according to the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID), more than 40 per cent of those over 50, and 70 per cent of over 70s have a hearing loss. Hearing loss can lead to isolation, emotional distress, and depression during the recent pandemic social distancing has reduced the ability for those with hearing loss to communicate, with mask-wearing resulting in muffled speech and the inability to lip read. Hearing loss can also increase the risk of dementia by up to five times, but evidence also suggests that hearing aids may reduce these risks.
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Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh and the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, died at Windsor Castle Friday at 99.
Philip was the longest-serving consort of a reigning British monarch. The queen ascended the throne following the 1952 death of her father King George VI.
He served as royal patron, president or member of more than 780 organizations focused on industry, wildlife preservation, sports and education and chaired The Duke of Edinburgh s Award, one of Britain’s most prestigious youth activity programs.
A Tumultuous Youth: Philip was born on the Greek island of Corfu on June 10, 1921, the fifth child and only son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and his British wife Princess Alice of Battenberg
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racial terminology
A person’s race should only be included if relevant to the story. The words black and Asian should not be used as nouns, but as adjectives: black people rather than “blacks”, an Asian woman rather than “an Asian”, etc.
Say African-Caribbean rather than Afro-Caribbean.
Use the word “immigrant” with great care, not only because it is often incorrectly used to describe people who were born in Britain, but also because it has been used negatively for so many years. If relevant, say people are “children of immigrants”, not “second-generation immigrants”
rack or wrack?
You rack your brains, face rack and ruin, and are racked with guilt, shame or pain; wrack is seaweed
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abbreviations and acronyms
Do not use full points in abbreviations, or spaces between initials, including those in proper names: IMF, mph, eg, 4am, M&S, No 10, AN Wilson, WH Smith, etc.
Use all capitals if an abbreviation is pronounced as the individual letters (an initialism): BBC, CEO, US, VAT, etc; if it is an acronym (pronounced as a word) spell out with initial capital, eg Nasa, Nato, Unicef, unless it can be considered to have entered the language as an everyday word, such as awol, laser and, more recently, asbo, pin number and sim card. Note that pdf and plc are lowercase.