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Eight Words With Double Meanings That Show How Odd The English Language Can Be
11 Sep 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
If you’re a first-language English speaker, you probably take the language for granted. Have you ever stopped to think about just how weird it actually is?
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You Follow This English Grammar Rule Without Even Being Aware Of It
13 Aug 2018 by Carrie / No Comments
Learning a language often requires following a number of rules. Sometimes, it turns out, we’re not even aware of those rules.
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Afrikaans Is On The Rise And Is Beating English Hands Down In SA
04 Aug 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
If you thought Afrikaans was a dying language you would be wrong, with both the census numbers and the new dictionary proving there’s still life in the ou bokkie.
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You Won’t Believe The Words Scrabble Will Now Let You Use
22 May 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
I get that board games have to roll with the times to stay relevant but some of the new additions to the Scrabble dictionary are just, like, really eww.
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Why You Should Stop Using The Word ‘Actually’
02 Dec 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Do you consider yourself a salesman? Would you like people to take you seriously when you pitch your ideas? Well, here is some important advice for you…
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You Need To Be Aware Of This British Politician Sex Photo Tabloid Sting
01 Oct 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A Tory MP is complaining to the new press regulator over a tabloid’s “entrapment” of a minister, who was tricked into sexting an explicit image of himself.
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English Man Teaches Japanese How To Use The Word ‘Fuck’ Correctly [Video]
24 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Swearing isn’t as easy as it looks in the movies sometimes, so an Englishman has traveled and decided to help out some of the locals get their F-bombs out.
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GENIUS: Check Out This Brilliant Advert For A Multi-Lingual School In Jo’burg
04 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
South African-based ad agency, Joe Public, created this masterful campaign for a school in Johannesburg that teaches in both English and Afrikaans. The campaign features a series of posters with poetry on them – that’s not the clever part though. The clever part is that each of the poems can be read word-for-word in both English and Afrikaans, with only slight changes in meaning.
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HOW TO AVOID TORTURING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
16 Aug 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Are you a business executive? Do you find yourself tempted to remain at work until the wee hours of the morning, churning out directional missives, illuminating memos and pep-rousing employee bulletins? You may be adding too much douche to your vocab. Not sure? Test yourself. Do you, or have you ever used one of these […]
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