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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…
Posted in[Pop & Not] Culture LingLang
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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Sick of Being Pied? Be More Umble…
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…
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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…
Comma Chameleon
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…
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Are You Tired of Dashing About?
#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…
Hit the Road, Hack
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…
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Think ‘You’ Is Rude? Explain ‘Yourself’!
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…