Here you’ll find various interesting facts, mind maps, word comparisons, and other helpful posts that can help you improve your English.
- Beside vs. besides: how to choose the right word
- Hypothesis vs. theory: what is the difference?
- How to write decades: 1990s, 90s, and 90ies
- How scandal changed from stumbling block to public disgrace
- Classic vs. classical: what is the difference?
- How parasite went from human freeloader to biology term
- Childish vs. childlike: what is the difference?
- How spinster changed from a job title to an insult
- Liable vs. likely: what is the difference?
- What “march to the beat of your own drum” means, and where it comes from
- Biceps can be singular or plural
- Quintessence: from the fifth element to the purest example
- What “man bites dog” means, and why journalists say it
- What is an aptronym?
- Apportion vs. portion: what is the difference?
- What vulgar originally meant
- Widow’s peak vs. crow’s feet: What is the difference?
- What “make waves” means and where it comes from
- Makeshift, improvised, and stopgap: how they differ
- How weird changed from fate to strange
- What does “moonbow” mean?
- What “short shrift” means, and where it came from
- Why robust is connected to oak
- Why boudoir once meant a place to pout in
- What “prepone” means in Indian English
- Why galaxy is related to the Greek word for milk
- What does “pootle” mean?
- Mark Twain was Samuel Clemens’s pen name
- What “make a clean breast of it” means, and where it comes from
- Trustful vs. trustworthy: What’s the difference?
- What “low hanging fruit” means, and where it comes from
- Logical vs. rational: what is the difference?
- What “lost in the shuffle” means and where it comes from
- Why the word restaurant means to restore
- What “lose your marbles” means, and where it likely comes from
- Why campaign originally meant open countryside
- Bolster vs. buttress: what is the difference?
- Why we say “loose cannon”
- What “long odds” means, and why it suggests a small chance
- Rigorous vs. vigorous: What is the difference?
- Yolk vs. yoke: what is the difference?
- Adept vs. adapt: How to choose the right word
- How panic got its name from Pan
- Why desert island means deserted, not sandy
- Phenomenon vs. phenomena: what is the difference?
- Wait or await: what is the difference?
- What “live on the fat of the land” means, and where it comes from
- Why make a beeline means going straight to something
- Flounder or founder: what is the difference?
- Ask for vs. ask about: what is the difference?
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