Although I think if you did that nowadays, you would probably be arrested! Or fired!
Idioms
It’s SCAPEgoat, not ESCAPE goat!
Although the way things are going, I will not be surprised if everyone is using escape goat in a decade or two, more’s the pity. From Wikipedia A scapegoat is a person or animal which takes on the sins of others, or… Read More ›
Why can English speakers no longer use their language properly?
There was an energetic discussion yesterday in one of the dog groups I frequent about the number of dog breeders using the word weary instead of wary. As in, Boerboels need to be weary of strangers. More and more people chimed… Read More ›
When language does not translate across cultures
This hilarious fail from an Osaka department store in Japan was reported in various media yesterday. When I saw it and before I read the article, I assumed that it had been because someone thought that ‘fucking’ was a synonym… Read More ›
