Here you’ll find various interesting facts, mind maps, word comparisons, and other helpful posts that can help you improve your English.
- 11/06/26: What factoid originally meant
- 11/06/26: Morbid vs. macabre: what is the difference?
- 11/06/26: Why we say “gild the lily”
- 10/06/26: No one invented English grammar
- 10/06/26: Why stoic comes from a painted porch
- 10/06/26: English began as a Germanic language
- 10/06/26: How gossip went from godparent to rumor talk
- 10/06/26: What “the eleventh hour” means, and where it comes from
- 09/06/26: The paragraph symbol, ¶, is called a pilcrow
- 09/06/26: Deliberate vs. intentional: what is the difference?
- 09/06/26: Why epicurean comes from Epicurus
- 09/06/26: What “easy come, easy go” means and where it comes from
- 08/06/26: Incredible vs. incredulous: what is the difference?
- 08/06/26: Where “separate the wheat from the chaff” comes from
- 07/06/26: Exacerbate vs. exasperate: what is the difference?
- 07/06/26: Constitute vs. comprise: what is the difference?
- 07/06/26: Collective nouns in British English, singular or plural
- 06/06/26: What “cast pearls before swine” means, and where it comes from
- 06/06/26: Augment vs. supplement: what is the difference?
- 06/06/26: How Spartan became a word for strict simplicity
- 06/06/26: What “the early bird catches the worm” means, and where it comes from
- 05/06/26: Why Olympian comes from Mount Olympus
- 05/06/26: Cursory vs. perfunctory: what is the difference?
- 05/06/26: The origin of “go the extra mile”
- 04/06/26: Schematic vs. systematic: what is the difference?
- 04/06/26: What “keep your ear to the ground” means, and where it likely came from
- 04/06/26: Entitled or titled: what is the difference?
- 04/06/26: How negative adverbs change English word order
- 04/06/26: Endemic vs. epidemic: what is the difference?
- 03/06/26: Why we say “hit below the belt”
- 03/06/26: Capable vs. competent: what is the difference?
- 03/06/26: Why the word lesbian comes from the island of Lesbos
- 02/06/26: Where “come up to scratch” comes from
- 02/06/26: Feasible vs. possible: what is the difference?
- 02/06/26: What “get your ducks in a row” means, and where it likely comes from
- 01/06/26: What “have skin in the game” means and where it comes from
- 01/06/26: Enervate vs. energize: what is the difference?
- 01/06/26: Casual vs. causal: what is the difference?
- 01/06/26: English adjectives that usually come after the verb
- 31/05/26: What “drop the ball” means, and where it likely came from
- 31/05/26: The origin of “throw in the towel”
- 31/05/26: Beside vs. besides: what is the difference?
- 31/05/26: Why “meander” comes from a river name
- 30/05/26: The origin of “move the goalposts”
- 30/05/26: What “at the drop of a hat” means and where it likely came from
- 30/05/26: Amid vs. among: what is the difference?
- 30/05/26: Why we say “behind the eight ball”
- 29/05/26: Latent vs. dormant: what is the difference?
- 29/05/26: Detract vs. distract: what is the difference?
- 29/05/26: Coherence vs. cohesion: what is the difference?
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