Delight in Colourful Compounds
single verb made up of multiple words? For some, compound verbs, or …
Tag: English
Is It All Greek To You?
Here’s the second instalment in our look at common expressions and idioms that include names …
Words of the 1950s
What do the words nerd, disco, pager and Eurovision have in common? They all appeared …
Words of the 1940s
Did you know the term “mobile phone” has been used since the 1940s? That decade …
Parlez-vous franglais? The Phenomenon of Mixing Languages
Franglais: An attitude of lingual laziness, a threat to the integrity of a language or …
Cut, Cut … and Cut Superfluous Words
Redundancies abound in English. We’ve listed some of the most common examples and removed – …
Beauty in the Words of the Beholder
Beauty in the Words of the Beholder We recently came across a TEDx talk on …
Coulda Woulda Shoulda
Learners of English as a second language are often encouraged to reduce the verb construction …
May I have a strawberry sour, please?
Wait. Reading the description on the “Strawberry Sour”-flavored chewing gum package made me do a …