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.
This sad story offers a few applications as an illustration. If you search around the internet you’ll find numerous articles about it. Here’s one from local News Limited. Welsh engineers Taylor & Sons, which was established in 1875, got a shock in February 2009 when Companies House, the UK government’s registrar of companies, recorded the …
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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