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Category: Language

10 Contranyms (with examples)

July 22, 2020 Geoff For Readers, Language

English is a confusing language. Simple words can have opposite meanings or different implications. It all depends on the context. Here’s some examples …

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What the FAQ?

March 19, 2020 Geoff For Readers, Language

There’s and old saying that the computing industry is confusing mass of TLAs (Three-Letter Acronyms) and ETLAs (Extended Three-Letter Acronyms[…]

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A Rough Guide to Rude Rhyming Slang

March 16, 2020 Geoff For Writers, Language

Cockney rhyming slang is fun, silly, and surprisingly rude.

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Over-excited Puddings and Other Odd Origins

February 19, 2020 Geoff For Readers, Fun, Language

Whether you’re miffed, waffling, ticket-boo or taking the Mickey, the English language is full of words with odd derivations. Just don’t pop your clogs before reading this…

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Four Candles

January 28, 2020 Geoff Fun, Language

Here’s a blast from the past to brighten your day …

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Cross-eyed bears and friendly ants

November 19, 2019 Geoff Fun, Language

My late mother thought Gladly was rather a nice name for a bear, but as a child she could never[…]

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The 8 longest words in English

September 29, 2019 Geoff For Writers, Fun, Language

The longest word in the English language is a whisker under 190,000 letters long and would take over an hour[…]

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Using two words instead of one

February 21, 2019 Geoff For Writers, Fun, Language

Benjamin Dreyer has compiled a list of redundancies, surplus words to delete from your writing where you’ve used two words[…]

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12 Odd Idioms

February 8, 2019 Geoff Fun, Language

Some years ago, a German friend – who speaks very good English – was visiting New Zealand and boarded a[…]

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The Nautical Derivation of Well-known Words and Phrases

June 28, 2018 Geoff Language

Many familiar English words and phrases have interesting derivations, and because England was once a great sea power, a surprising[…]

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