Common confusions

It’s easy to mix up words that sound similar in Spanish and English but have completely different meanings, Oliver Pritchard explains There...

Swearing in English

Warning: This article contains strong language! Swearing in a foreign language is something that can easily make you sound very strange. Oliver...

Maybe not

Oliver Pritchard looks at ways of expressing uncertainty in English without using the subjunctive Different languages reflect different...

The world’s language

Oliver Pritchard continues his romp through the uses of English round the world English is undoubtedly the world’s language, the modern...

Nations divided by a common language

Oliver Pritchard takes on American English - they say tom-ay-to but he clearly says tom-ah-to In the second of a series of articles about the...

Precise Imprecision

[caption id="attachment_12787" align="aligncenter" width="960"] “There were 50 odd people at his birthday party” - In this case, ‘odd’ means...

Colour Your Language

[caption id="attachment_3107" align="aligncenter" width="960"] How would you describe this photo?[/caption] Learn some new ways to improve your...