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Welcome to another edition of the Language Headlines Mini-Cast

from Away With Words, I'm Grant Barrett. Two stories out of the Olympics that have just finished. At MSNBCNBC there is a dispute over whether the city is Beijing or Beijing.

Beijing by the way is the most correct pronunciation.

And at the London Times, Ben McIntyre talks about China's national effort to eradicate Chinglish,

that awkward and sometimes funny mix of English and Chinese that shows up on signs and menus.

That means no more corrugated iron beef or government abuse

chicken. June Casa Grande, author of mortal syntax 101 language choices that

will get you clobbered by the grammar snobs even if you're right. 2001 language what with its acronyms and abbreviated words.

She tells them it's no big deal and to not blame the children.

She says, my message is, put down the mallet

and step away from your kids BlackBerry.

In last week's ethicist column in the New York Times magazine,

Randy Cohen responded to a reader who asked if it was okay if he, as a fourth grade

teacher, tried to correct the regional accents of his students.

Cohen replies,

you should not strive to make your students speak like network news anchors.

No doubt that is not the last he's going to hear about that.

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