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As yet another fabulous series of Strictly Comes Dancing nears its conclusion (I’m a bit of a fan, in case you were wondering) it seems apt to focus on dancing idioms for the next post in my series. So, without further…
Now that the clocks have gone forward, I think it’s safe to say that spring has well and truly arrived. Even if the weather here in the UK doesn’t appear to have received the memo! Not surprisingly, a blog post…
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…
Go on any marketing for small businesses course and you’ll no doubt be told that building up an email list is an essential step to growing your business. So why have I recently deleted my blog subscribers from my website…
To help you feel in a suitably romantic mood for Valentine’s Day, I thought I’d collate some English expressions and idioms about love. How love came about As you might expect, love is almost as old as time… According to…
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…
Seeing as it’s Mother’s Day today here in the UK – I know that other parts of the world celebrate it at different times of the year – I thought I’d dedicate my latest blog post to language-related facts, trivia…
A recent query from a client reminded me of a topic I’ve been meaning to blog about for a while: when to use a or an. Most of us will remember learning a simple rule at school. If the word following the indefinite article begins with a consonant, then use a; if it begins with […]
Following hot on the heels of National Freelancers’ Day here in the UK, this week’s post aims to dispel a few common myths about freelancing and the freelance lifestyle… Myth #1: Working from home is so easy As anyone who works from home – whether working remotely for an employer or on a self-employed basis – will know, […]
Here in the Northern Hemisphere, winter is well underway – we’re not exactly snowed in in the UK, but we are expecting a few flakes tonight! So, seeing as we Brits like to discuss the weather as we go about our daily lives, I’ve put together a collection of winter idioms to continue my series. As with most idioms, however, hardly any of these […]
As well as enabling me to practise my rusty German, a recent trip to Berlin got me thinking about the various German words and phrases that have infiltrated everyday English vocabulary. Although I thought there were more French words used in… Posted in Language Tagged with: German, languages, words
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…
In order not to confuse the reader, it’s important to avoid ambiguity in your writing – unless, of course, it’s a deliberate literary technique. One area of grammar that seems to cause a lot of ambiguity is the thorny subject…