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Small vocabulary changes, big differences

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on January 3, 2023December 4, 2022

There is an interesting breakdown to my group English lessons. I teach adults in politics,…

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Swindon Borough Council needs grammar lessons

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on November 14, 2022November 12, 2022

This bench plaque is atrocious.

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‘Queenly’ terms

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on September 13, 2022September 13, 2022

My students have been asking me for the past few days about terms they have…

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  • Vocabulary

Words I have seen for the first time recently

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on August 18, 2022August 13, 2022

floordrobe (common in homes with teenagers I imagine) zoombies (Zoom zombies) image architect (stylist) sidestream…

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English words translated into Swedish

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on August 11, 2022August 1, 2022
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Origin of the word ‘selfie’

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on July 22, 2022July 13, 2022

It seems almost certain the selfie originated in Australia with a young drunk first using…

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  • Culture

Pants!

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on July 18, 2022July 8, 2022

George Bernard Shaw famously said that the United States and Great Britain are two countries…

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  • About English

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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  • Vocabulary

It’s Pareidolia I tell you!

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on May 7, 2022April 30, 2022

Pareidolia (/pærɪˈdoʊliə/ parr-i-DOH-lee-ə) is a psychological phenomenon in which the mind responds to a stimulus,…

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  • Animals

My favourite collective nouns

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on April 5, 2022April 2, 2022

There are several options for most collective nouns. For example a group of cats can…

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