The Linguist

34 The Linguist Vol/64 No/2 ciol.org.uk/thelinguist Rachel Bland Based in Murcia, Spain, Rachel Bland MCIL taught English primarily to young learners for over a decade before turning to translation and editing. She carved out a niche in the field of CLIL, and now works on textbooks and digital materials for primary and secondary education. See p.10 Jonathan Downie Jonathan Downie is a consultant church and conference interpreter, researcher, and speaker. He is the author of Interpreting Wit: Humour fresh from the booth (Lulu, 2025), Multilingual Church (William Carey, 2024), Interpreters vs Machines (Routledge, 2019) and Being a Successful Interpreter (Routledge, 2016). See p.14 Keri Griffiths Born in the UK but a resident of Spain for over 25 years, Keri Griffiths MCIL is an experienced teacher of English as a foreign language. She went solo as a freelance interpreter and translator over 15 years ago. Communication and language learning are at the heart of all of her professional pursuits. See p.10 Charlotte Hale-Burgess Charlotte Hale-Burgess is a writer and translator who recently stepped away from a ten-year sales career in the wine trade. Now focused on language and storytelling, she has her own business combining deep industry knowledge with wine writing and translation, helping producers and publications communicate with clarity to the English-speaking world. See p.8 Saihong Li CIOL Council member Dr Saihong Li FCIL CL is a Senior Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Her research interests are interdisciplinary and encompass cultural studies, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, and translation studies. See p.18 Georgia Meakins Georgia Meakins ACIL holds an MA in Interpreting and works as a freelance Spanish- English-French interpreter/translator specialising in sustainability and renewable energies. She is a member of the CIOL's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committee; georgiameakins.com. See p.16 Antonio Muñoz Antonio Muñoz Barragán is a Spanish language tutor at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC), with experience of teaching at other Chinese universities. He speaks five languages, and his research focuses on comparative phraseology and typological linguistics. See p.24 Kelsie Pettit Kelsie Pettit MCIL CL is a translator, editor and project manager specialising in education, medicine and linguistic validation. She's an advocate of plain language and of cutting clutter from academic publications. Kelsie has worked on print and digital content for Spain's major bilingual education publishers. See p.10 CONTRIBUTORS Across 1 It's hello and goodbye! (4) 3 In music, it's a stubbornly repetitive motif. (8) 9 Muslim ruler's favourite fruit. (7) 10 A plump little boy from the Renaissance. (5) 11 A region along the Nile covering parts of Egypt and Sudan. (5) 12 A film caused by exposure to air. (6) 14 The smallest member of the string section. (6) 16 Perfect car for the Italian Summer. (6) 19 A trading bloc cooperating to maintain high prices. (6) 21 A slow movement. (5) 24 Can you use it to contact spirits? Emphatically yes! (5) 25 Square pasta cases with a filling. (7) 26 Apparently being precise is challenging. (8) 27 An Italian bean. (4) Down 1 Italian ladies' man. (8) 2 To improvise. (2-3) 4 Seafood, also known as Norway lobster. (6) 5 Russian leader is garbled when fed into the computer. (5) 6 Insect's feeler. (7) 7 A double-reed woodwind instrument. (4) 8 Thinly sliced sausage. (6) 13 Granules rejected in milling process can make a pudding. (8) 15 Wind instrument, from Italian, 'little goose'. (7) 17 It starts the digestion process. (6) 18 Formerly a 2 shilling coin. (6) 20 Hot bread eaten to wish someone good health? (5) 22 Red Spanish wine. (5) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Crossword no.38 Solution, page 26. Many of the clues are to words derived from one European language.

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