No, la parola dell’anno 2015, secondo Oxford Dictionaries, non è “emoji“: è – letteralmente – un emoji! Continua a leggere La parola dell’anno (#WOTY) secondo Oxford Dictionaries
The History of English… in 10 Minutes!
video by The Open University – Voiced by Clive Anderson, this entertaining romp through ‘The History of English’ squeezes 1600 years of history into a 10-minute funny video, uncovering the sources of English words and phrases from Shakespeare and the King James Bible to America and the Internet.
Commonly Confused Words in English
Take a look at these two sentences – one of them contains a mistake:
– I poured over book after book.
– We pored over the catalogues.
Are you uncertain which one is right?
There are a lot of words in English that look or sound alike but have very different meanings, such as pore and pour or flaunt and flout.
Watch this video by Oxford Dictionaries:
Read more about commonly confused words in English HERE (via Oxford Dictionaries – Language matters)
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