Nursery rhymes are deceptively simple but they teach us all about rhyme, word order, and vocabulary whether real or nonsense! Source: Pop Goes the Weasel:…

Continue reading → Pop Goes the Weasel: the magical language of nursery rhymes – Collins Dictionary Language BlogIn honour of Nursery Rhymes Week, which ended last Friday. 

My Collins post about Autumn words.   We discuss autumn, as the colourful fallen or falling leaves and the shortening days remind us that it…

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Happy European Day of Language! Here's my post on the theme. Monday 26 September marks The European Day of Languages with aims to encourage language…

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