antidisestablishmentarianism
Although the OED contains both pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (a lung disease) and floccipaucinihilipilification (the act of estimating as worthless),... Read more.
Cricket
The late comedian Robin Williams once described cricket as ‘baseball on Valium’. Although it’s not a massively popular sport in…... Read more.
Sycophant
My e-mailbag this month contains a complaint from Yiannis Iliopoulos of Kozani, who berates me in most polite terms for…... Read more.
Word Stories: handsome
Those of us who are not cut out to be supermodels may well agree with the old English proverb that…... Read more.
Word Stories: okay
While planning a new product in 1994, the Coca-Cola company found that Coca-Cola was the second most recognisable term across…... Read more.
Word Stories: ye
You don’t have to go far in England, particularly in the south, to find somewhere selling over-priced tea and scones…... Read more.
Word Stories: go
Here goes. I’m going to have a go at dealing with go, one of the commonest, and most complicated, verbs…... Read more.
Empowering Language Learners: A Conversation with Stephen John Taylor on TEFL, Assessment, and the Future of Language Education
Stephen John Taylor is a Teacher/Examiner Trainer, Academic Consultant and Presenter. A graduate of Lancaster University (UK), he holds an…... Read more.
nim
In the mathematical realm of game theory, there is a simple game that has been analyzed and which is often…... Read more.
Word Stories: orange
It’s been said that there are two words in English for which there are no perfect rhymes. One of them…... Read more.