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Word up….! Words with a myriad meanings!

13 March 2019

You’d think it would be simple. You have a word. It has a definition, a meaning… Not when it comes to the English language! At 600,000 words in the Oxford English dictionary, the English language has one of the largest vocabularies of all the languages of the world. There are a number of words in English that …

More English language oddities and where they come from!

28 November 2018

If you’re not a native English speaker, learning English can seem a tough challenge. There are so many rules that end up not being rules at all (“i before e except after c” springs to mind – we’ll come back to that later!). Sometimes certain spellings seem to make no sense at all! One thing’s …

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