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I’ve recently noticed a growing trend of people misusing – or, to be precise, failing to use – apostrophes in expressions of time. It seems to be fairly widespread, ranging from emails and newsletter content to blog posts and social media updates. I don’t know if it’s due to laziness, a general lack of understanding […]
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Seeing as a large number of schoolchildren in the UK are currently in the midst of external exams – whether that’s GCSEs, AS levels or A2s – a blog post covering idioms about exams seemed to be the obvious contender for the next in my series. As you would expect, most of the sayings in this […]
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After visiting two delightful gardens last weekend – one belonging to the National Trust and a private one open under the National Gardens Scheme – I was inspired to research gardening idioms for this week’s post. As with most idiomatic phrases in English, few gardening idioms have anything to do with things that grow in […]
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We Brits talk about the weather a lot. It dominates our everyday conversations and is always a reliable opener for small talk. It’s not surprising, therefore, that a number of weather-related idioms have crept into the English language over the years. As a word nerd and linguist, I enjoy finding out where words and phrases […]
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As the final of this year’s Eurovision hits our screens tonight, I thought it would be apt to focus attention on English sayings that include a reference to a European country, city, nationality or language. So let’s kick off this post on European sayings with three Dutch ones… Double Dutch One way to insult someone is […]
Following the historic EU referendum result, I keep hearing – and reading – that “the UK is leaving Europe”. Or that “Britain is leaving the EU”. Both of these statements are, in fact, incorrect. And difficult for a pedant like me to ignore. You see, it’s all a question of terminology… Great Britain / UK / British […]
As you may know, I’m rather partial to words. I enjoy reading them, writing them, playing with them, learning about their origin and discovering new ones. So, seeing as I’ve already written a blog post with my favourite quotes about writing, it seems only right to also do one on quotations about words – both of […]
It’s no secret that I love discovering and collecting new words. And I find it much easier to remember them if I group them into themes. I recently came across two new words about senses that complemented a few I already knew, especially as they all share a connection with nature. Some are English words, […]
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