We discussed slang in English Language yesterday and I found it so interesting I decided I had to write about it. Slang is something that’s really hard to define. I know there are definitions in dictionaries and you can google the word and come up with many definitions some of which ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
Browsing my blogs and the web last night had me finding some potentially interesting things, not sure what to use them for or how it’d be possible to link them all in a story but that’s not my problem I only put these things out there. Let’s start with a ...
I’m sure I’ve discussed this before but English is a mongrel language and morphs as the times change. The word gay used to mean happy and if I read any stories written before the 1970s I stop and think about this word to ensure I get the right meaning. I’m ...
You can always sucker me in with a good discussion about grammar and spelling so when someone directed me to MamaMia I was over there in a flash, reading it took rather much longer as I was interrupted by dinner and my #ausallergy Twitter chat. I finally finished and checked out ...
I cannot believe they thought this response was appropriate. By now I’m sure you’ve all heard of the Gasp Jeans Debacle. Just in case you haven’t here is the link to the article, it has links to the original email and their response. Summarising the whole event though would make ...
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking out loud about English on the Pre-loved Books @ Suz’s Space Facebook Fan page. I don’t pretend to be interesting all the time as it’s just various things I’m thinking about and notice in my travels. Sometimes it’s things I’ve pulled out of ...
This is not a high-browed discussion on kids and how they learn to speak and how they learn grammar, it’s just going to be an observation. I was having lunch with some friends yesterday, the hostess’ two kids were there and the two-year-old was enamoured with me, she just couldn’t ...