I hear you! You’re saying, “Meronyms? What on Earth are meronyms?” Well, to be honest with you, I had no idea what they were until very recently when I came across the term in a…
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Metaphorical Pattering
Have you ever thought about how often we talk about love? It’s fair enough, I guess. I mean love makes the world go round! All you need is love! Love is everything! Right? At least…
Pun and Games
What are puns and why am I reading about them? Well, let me start off by telling you that I’m a massive fan of puns. Puns are often known as “dad jokes.” That’s because you…
Sofia’s 10 Tips for Enjoyment of English
Tip #1 During an English class, you need to feel good, so a pleasant and welcoming atmosphere is an absolutely must. As emotional intelligence guru Dan Goleman says: “When we are relaxed, it’s easier to…
15 Heterographs
Let’s start with an amusing image. Why is this funny? Well, even if you don’t get the joke, it’s still pretty funny, I guess. I mean – who can’t laugh at a duck flying madly…
Make It Snappy – Camping Adventures
Between 1990 and 2010 I went camping and hiking with my fellow scouts and my close friends almost every weekend. We learned an awful lot about nature and how one should behave when out there. …
11 Retronyms
Sometimes I look at the date and think, “What happened there, then?” It’s 2020! We are seriously in the future now. Yep – we are now in a time AFTER Back to the Future 2,…
Carisa Got Help Swiftly
TOEFL score speaking improvement … 13 points in one week. The first time Carisa took the TOEFL, she studied for months and achieved only 76. She needed at least 95 to apply to U.S. business schools and to…
Palindromes in English
A couple of weeks ago, we had a very special date. Lots of people decided to talk about it on social media, which means we know it’s important, right? At the beginning of this month,…
What’s in a Name?
As every new parent knows, choosing a name for baby can be fraught with difficulty, even before the inevitable grandparental disapproval. How frustrating! Gordon Bennett! It could all so easily go Pete Tong! Firstly, it’s…
The Spirit of Solidarity
OK. It had to happen, didn’t it? You know what I’m talking about – yet another article on the dreaded Coronavirus! It’s something we don’t really want to talk about, right? But bear with me…
36 Everyday English Acronyms
Humans are lazy. If we can find an easy way of doing something, then we do it. It’s one of the reasons for our success as a species. It also means that language is littered…