Stan Freberg has died. You can search around for more info. Here’s ‘Elderly Man River’.
Stan Freberg has died. You can search around for more info. Here’s ‘Elderly Man River’.
Getting your abbreviations right, Mental Floss provides a tutorial on the meaning and usage of i.e. and e.g. I.e. and e.g. are both abbreviations for Latin terms. I.e. stands for id est and means roughly “that is.” E.g. stands for exempli gratia, which means “for example.” “Great. Latin,” you’re probably thinking. “How am I supposed …
An animated video that accompanies a talk on avoiding nominalisations.
Some of us live in fear of pronouncing words incorrectly. Quinoa, anyone? In honour of all those visiting tennis players currently competing in the Australia Open and saying how much they’re enjoying the hospitality (or dreading the heat) in ‘MelBORN’, here’s an edition of Anglophenia that deals with British place names. If you think the …
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