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Hats Off to Easy A’s
Do you write a lowercase ‘a’ with or without its ‘little hat’? 🧢 It seems that Emma Stone plumps for an 'easy A'. Her obsession with Baby Spice prompted her…
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Hey Presto! We Italycised English [Art]
Part Three: Artistic Licence Art is its own language. It speaks to our shared humanity and educes natural instinct. It does not require articulation or translation to be appreciated. But,…
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Hey Presto! We Italycised English [Music]
Part Two: Musical Chairs - How Italian Terms Orchestrate English Weaving from the fabric of culinary terms in the last post, the influence of Italian on English takes a turn…
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Hey Presto! We Italycised English [Food]
Part One: Hungry for Italian? Italian cuisine is the world's most popular, according to YouGov. It is no surprise that the English language diet includes numerous Italian staples. In fact,…
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June’s a Queen; July Caesar Change
Hera me out, June is a queen - a month of sunshine, rose bushes and pearls. For now, I choose to ignore etymological evidence to the contrary, but you can…
Posted in[Pop & Not] Culture North East
Sunderland Is More Than Weary
And It's Nothing Less Than the Mackems Deserve Sunderland is trendingy again! This long-neglected city by the sea, battered by severe economic storms, remained on the peripheries of decision making…