Is next (Chinese New) year the Year of the Sheep or Goat?
Category Archive: Language
English – and possibly other languages – get quite weird when it comes to place names. Each seems to become an idiom on its own.
Just as we are practised and skilled at reading beyond the literality of words, we need tools to see beyond pictures. This is the start of a journey to acquire those tools, and achieve visual literacy.
This blog is almost a month old now, and it would help me to cater better for your […]
The Internet is replete with information and opinions, many of them plain wrong. This is most true of […]
If you research art history, you know how hard it can be to track down an image of […]
The CEO of a corporation supplying software to the legal market considers the concept of momentum to be […]
We all have our peeves about language. But Andrew McMillen’s fascinating article about those who contribute to Wikipedia […]
Being a linguist must be very frustrating. When others think of the most intellectually-demanding subjects which have been […]
There is no shortage of grammars, particularly of English, which will tell you how you must write a […]
