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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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  • 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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  • Vocabulary

Neologisms

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on March 9, 2022February 28, 2022

A neologism is a relatively recent or isolated term, word, or phrase that may be in…

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  • Words

Burn!

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on March 7, 2022February 27, 2022

I have written before about children being owned by their parents on social media, and…

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  • Culture

Annoying Jargon

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on November 29, 2021October 22, 2021

Do you hate going forward? Do you shudder when a colleague wants to reach out?…

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  • Vocabulary

One of my favourite smells

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on November 23, 2021October 22, 2021

My others are just-mowed grass sheets after having dried in the sun freshly-brewed or ground…

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  • Culture

Where do words come from?

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on November 9, 2021October 4, 2021

This is a discussion my students and I have fairly often. Who names things? And…

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  • Vocabulary

Most beautiful words in the English language

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on October 24, 2021October 22, 2021

One of my students asked me recently about my favourite words in the English language.…

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  • Culture

Recipe vs Receipt

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on October 6, 2021September 21, 2021

In Swedish, the word recept means both prescription (medicine) and recipe (cooking). This means that the word…

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