The 2019 word of the year
The 2019 word of the year has recently been announced by Collins Dictionary, and this year it is “climate strike”. The dictionary compilers define “climate strike” as “a form of protest in which peopl ...
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Old fossils!
Some of the most intriguing words in the English language are what linguists call fossil words, so named because they are artifacts from another era and survive only in isolated usage. Many of these w ...
“Trippingly on the tongue…”
Shakespeare played a major role in the transformation of the English language. He contributed more phrases and sayings to the English language than any other individual, and most of them are still in ...
Mind your language
I often see misplaced apostrophes in the market but I put them down to ignorance or a way of catching attention. A notice I saw last week read “tomatoes cheep”! Do they? Why and when? I bought some to ...