We say that tongue in cheek of course, but being able to understand English grammar is essential if you are to be an accurate transcriber. When learning grammar as a child or even as a non-native English speaker, some of the nuances and rules can appear very confusing and sometimes don’t even make any sense! …
Before MPs head off for their summer break, Parliament has been a hive of activity as the race to find a new prime minister hots up. But what’s grammar got to do with Parliament…?! A recent article raised a very interesting point when it came to grammar, whether it’s a class construct and the Deputy …
Valentine’s day. Whether you’re a lover or a hater (excuse the pun!), you celebrate it or avoid it, it seems to get bigger and more commercial every year. So we couldn’t resist jumping on the bandwagon and using it as a good excuse to look at the language of love! Let’s begin with the language …
Silly season is almost here. Or so we hear in the media. But what does silly season mean? Where does the saying come from? And does it exist at all? Silly season was a phrase coined right here in the UK and is actually connected to the annual shut down of parliament over the summer …
The last couple of months have been exam focused for so many of our young people – whether it’s the primary school SATS, or GCSEs/A Levels or even university exams, they’ve all been in full force since May. This got us to thinking about one element of the testing process, particularly for those primary school-aged …
As with so many other celebrations we mark throughout the year, Easter has some connection to the changing of the seasons (Halloween is another of them, which we’ve talked about before in our blog “All Hail Halloween” which touched on how the celebration marks the end of the Harvest and the beginning of Winter). Easter …
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 …
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 …