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 …
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 …
The way in which we communicate is changing – we only need to look at the explosion of the digital world over the last 15 years or so to see it. And spelling is no different. The transformation is all thanks to technology. Everything in this modern world is immediate, at the touch of a …
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 …