Here you’ll find various interesting facts, mind maps, word comparisons, and other helpful posts that can help you improve your English.
- Interpret vs. translate: what is the difference?
- Why luxury once meant lust and excess
- Altar vs. alter: what is the difference?
- What “the icing on the cake” means and where it comes from
- Patron vs. client: what is the difference?
- What “kick up a stink” means, and where it comes from
- What “hum and haw” means, and where it comes from
- Aisle vs. isle: what is the difference?
- Normality and normalcy: What is the difference?
- Ceremonial vs. ceremonious: what is the difference?
- What “house of cards” means, and why we say it
- Where “call the shots” comes from
- What “hot potato” means and why we say it
- Elflock: the old word for mysteriously tangled hair
- Eatable vs. edible: what is the difference?
- Allowed vs. aloud: what is the difference?
- Khaki: from dust colored to a clothing staple
- Where “butter someone up” comes from
- Why we say “bury your head in the sand”
- What “hook, line, and sinker” means, and where it comes from
- Whole or hole: what is the difference?
- Latest vs. last: what is the difference?
- What “burn your boats” means, and where it comes from
- What “burning the candle at both ends” means, and where it comes from
- Farther vs. further: How to choose the right word
- What “hold your tongue” means, and where it comes from
- Purposely vs. purposefully: what is the difference?
- Hogwash: from pig feed to nonsense
- Where “bring home the bacon” comes from
- How “fneeze” became “sneeze”
- What “hold your horses” means, and where it comes from
- Vulnerable vs. susceptible: what is the difference?
- Why “break a leg” means good luck
- The origin of “keep at bay”
- Wander vs. wonder: what is the difference?
- For vs. since: how to show duration and a starting point
- How jackpot came from poker
- What “break the ice” means and where it comes from
- Waive vs. wave: what is the difference?
- Prophecy vs. prophesy: what is the difference?
- Where “break the bank” comes from, and what it means now
- What “get down to brass tacks” means, and where it may come from
- Veracious vs. voracious: what is the difference?
- Words that look plural but act singular
- Why we say “jump on the bandwagon”
- The origin of “bottoms up”
- Vain, vein, and vane: what is the difference?
- Why Lord once meant loaf keeper
- Why “bone idle” means very lazy
- Equable vs. equitable: what is the difference?
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