August 2021

As any non-native speakers learning English as a second language soon discover, English is a funny language! Not only has its vocabulary derived from several European language families, but there are also numerous paradoxes and inconsistencies that are a real test of… If you stumble across a word with the prefix lex, there’s a pretty good chance […]

I’ve a confession: I loved the ’80s. The music, the fashion, the hair… Well, OK, maybe not the hair! But even though that decade is now a dim and distant memory, I’m still an ’80s girl at heart. Nostalgia FM The… Most people are familiar with common literary devices such as similes, metaphors and alliteration. Yet there […]