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With National Gardening Week starting on Monday 2 May, Collins Dictionary discusses words to do with horticulture and gardening. Source: National Gardening Week – Collins…
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I should have posted this on the day, but here it is anyway. Thursday 21 April is National Tea Day, so Collins Dictionary discusses all…
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Recently, President Macron was photographed in a pose that in more innocent times would have embarrassed even a cash-strapped gigolo.
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Said Philip Sydney, buttoning his jerkin ‘Allow me, darling: you have dropped your merkin.’
My thoughts on World Hearing Day. Thursday 3 March is World Hearing Day. This is an annual event to promote awareness of hearing loss and…
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That underlying conceptual metaphor is THE MIND IS THE UPPER STOREY IN A BUILDING, which relies in turn on the conceptual metaphor THE BODY IS A BUILDING.
Many journalists picked up on a single word in her resignation letter: scurrilous. The reason seems fairly obvious: scurrilous accusation is a great soundbite. That said, I can’t help wondering, cynic that I am, about a couple of other things. Did the hacks relish it because it’s not a word you come across every day? And how many people googled it to find out what it means?
Jeremy Butterfield Editorial 