Here you’ll find various interesting facts, mind maps, word comparisons, and other helpful posts that can help you improve your English.
- 07/04/26: Tmesis: why English sometimes splits a word for emphasis
- 07/04/26: Why “Let’s eat Grandma” needs a comma
- 07/04/26: What is an oronym?
- 06/04/26: Why bonfire used to be bonefire
- 06/04/26: Why “avocado” originally meant “testicle”
- 06/04/26: Goodbye: from a blessing to a simple farewell
- 05/04/26: Why “month,” “orange,” “silver,” and “purple” have no perfect rhymes
- 05/04/26: What “quanked” means, and how to use it
- 05/04/26: Colonel, why the spelling and sound do not match
- 04/04/26: What a cliché is, and why writers avoid it
- 04/04/26: What does callipygian mean?
- 04/04/26: Why ough sounds so different in English
- 03/04/26: What onomatomania means, and how to use it
- 03/04/26: A or an, it depends on the sound you say
- 02/04/26: What “marry the ketchups” means in restaurant English
- 02/04/26: Hair vs. hairs: what is the difference?
- 02/04/26: Why bowdlerize means to sanitize a book
- 02/04/26: What “forswunke” means, and why it still feels vivid
- 02/04/26: What clinomania means, and how to use it
- 01/04/26: What “honeyfuggle” means, and how to use it
- 01/04/26: Omnilegent: a rare word for someone widely read
- 01/04/26: Roorback: how a hoax name became a word for a political smear
- 01/04/26: Run on sentences, what they are and how to fix them
- 01/04/26: When the Letter Y Acts Like a Vowel
- 01/04/26: What is a euphemism?
- 31/03/26: Ereyesterday: a rare word for the day before yesterday
- 31/03/26: Garden path sentences can be tricky
- 31/03/26: English binomials: why some word pairs have a fixed order
- 31/03/26: Collocations: natural word pairings in English
- 30/03/26: Why window once meant wind eye
- 30/03/26: Lunting: walking while smoking a pipe
- 30/03/26: Why “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is special
- 30/03/26: When one English word means its opposite
- 30/03/26: Kine: the old plural of cow
- 29/03/26: What [sic] means, and where it comes from
- 28/03/26: How garbage went from animal entrails to everyday trash
- 28/03/26: Easy as pie: what the expression really means
- 28/03/26: Why read changes sound but keeps the same spelling
- 27/03/26: Why Uppercase and Lowercase Have Those Names
- 27/03/26: Why quarantine once meant forty days
- 26/03/26: Go: the shortest complete sentence, and why it works
- 26/03/26: Why muscle once meant little mouse
- 26/03/26: Girl once meant child, how the word became female only
- 26/03/26: Consequences vs Repercussions: What is the Difference?
- 26/03/26: Bookkeeper and the rare run of double letters
- 25/03/26: Octothorpe: the many names of the # symbol
- 25/03/26: What slugabed means, and how to use it
- 25/03/26: Why Reading Aloud Improves Your Writing
- 25/03/26: Ozzyfication in Australian English: why words get shorter
- 24/03/26: Why clue comes from clew
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