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…
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,…
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…
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,…
And Stop Kicking Off[al] Online! Skip to TL;DR We've been having the 'aitch' versus 'haitch' debate for over two thousand years and we still can't agree to disagree. It is…
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…
A full week of localising educational documents about inclusivity, NCDs and food groups led me to writing this! Educational documents being localised US-EN to UK-EN, the language bastardised Strategically placed…
#HashtagHyphen Hashtags - once just the name of a symbol - now define social media phrases fronted by the # mark. Hashtags are the strategic tools of social media users…
Life Hacks are Old Hat. Is that all right, Jack? Skip to TL;DR The concept of 'life hacks' turns everything into a matter of efficiency, and that kind of hacks…
A Story of Self-Acceptance Skip to TL;DR Like all good viewers, I was outraged by The Traitors. I withstood the brutal tactics and predicted most of the sucker punches. But…