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Words of the year

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on November 8, 2025November 2, 2025

I saw this list of Oxford words of the year for the UK: I then…

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  • Slang

Getting the messages

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on May 3, 2025May 1, 2025

I smiled as I read this (in Denise Mina’s The Last Breath), and wondered how…

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Eggcorns

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on June 20, 2022May 27, 2022

The misuse of certain phrases in English is something that really gets my goat. Some…

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The mind boggles

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on July 26, 2020June 27, 2020

Elon Musk (one of the most famous South Africans in the world at the moment),…

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New words

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on May 18, 2020May 9, 2020

I am sure that self-isolation and social distancing will enter the dictionary this year, as…

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The rise and fall of slang over 900 years

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on February 11, 2020November 29, 2019

I read an interesting article recently about the rise and fall of slang words throughout…

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Pants (UK), pants (US), pants (mathematical) and a pile of pants

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on January 3, 2019December 14, 2018

Another potential for embarrassment between US and UK English In the US pants are worn…

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Cockney Rhyming Slang

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on December 10, 2016November 28, 2016

Sometimes, for fun, I give my students things like this to ‘translate’ (answer at bottom…

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Why jokes, idioms and slang are difficult to translate to another language

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on March 10, 2015February 26, 2015
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Pants (UK), pants (US), pants (mathematical) and a pile of pants

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on April 29, 2014August 10, 2015

Another potential for embarrassment between US and UK English In the US pants are worn…

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