“I picked up an injury at Glasgow, so hopefully this tournament will be much more successful! I’m a former University of Birmingham student, so to be involved in such a major event at this venue, where I have so many great memories, will be really exciting.”įor the other English officials, it’s a first involvement in a Commonwealth Games. At this event, she will be overseeing the ball patrol team, a role she’s completed at many top-level events in this country.Īlso at the 2014 event in Glasgow was Hannah Harrison, for whom this tournament will be extra special. This one has particular sentimental value for Barstow, after his mum Bev was selected to be a Commonwealth Games baton bearer in the run up to the event, in recognition of her dedication to the sport over many years. Hannah Harrison, Rachel Williams and Rebecca Woodcock will be umpiring during the women’s tournament.įor Dan Barstow, it’s a second appearance at a Commonwealth Games after he officiated at the 2014 event in Glasgow, where he umpired the final. However it’s not just England’s athletes who will take centre stage at one of the most prestigious events in the hockey calendar, as there are an impressive seven English officials appointed to the umpiring team at the tournament.Įxperienced Umpire Manager Louise Knipe will be overseeing the umpiring at the men’s tournament, where umpires Bruce Bale, Dan Barstow and Nick Bennett will be in action. So the next time you tell your boss you "want to run an idea" by them, know that you’re unconsciously expressing your enthusiasm-as well as all the other subtleties wrapped up in run that previous words like set failed to capture.England’s men’s and women’s teams are going for gold at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. “It is a feature of our more sort of energetic and frantic times that set and put seem, in a peculiar way, sort of rather stodgy, rather conservative,” Gilliver told NPR in an interview. He believes the widespread use of run-and its intricate web of meanings-is also a reflection of our times. Winchester thinks this evolution is partly due to advancements in technology (for instance, “a train runs on tracks” and “an iPad runs apps”). However, the word put later outpaced it, and run eventually overtook them both as the English language's most complex word. When the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was published in 1928, the word with the most definitions was set. “But no such luck: that is merely sense I.1a, and there are miles to go before the reader of this particular entry may sleep.”
“You might think this word simply means ‘to go with quick steps on alternate feet, never having both or (in the case of many animals) all feet on the ground at the same time,’” Winchester writes. Peter Gilliver, a lexicographer and associate editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, spent nine months sussing out its many shades of meaning. As a verb, it boasts a record-setting 645 definitions.
My advice is to give up!”)Īs author Simon Winchester wrote for The New York Times, there’s one English word in particular that’s deceptively simple: run. (For a sample: “Hiccough has the sound of cup. For evidence of the many nuances and inconsistencies of the English tongue, look no further than this tricky poem penned in 1920. To use just one example, there are at least eight different ways of expressing events in the future, and conditional tenses are another matter entirely. English can be hard for other language speakers to learn.
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