Commonly Confused Words

Commonly Confused Words

by | Sep 12, 2014 | Higher Education

There are a lot of words out there.  In fact there are at least a quarter of a million distinct English words -and when you add on inflections, local vocabularies and words that are now obsolete, there are probably closer to three quarters of a million. So it’s not...
Demystifying Dictionaries

Demystifying Dictionaries

by | Jun 3, 2014 | Dictionaries

Oxford Dictionaries recently named selfie as their 2013 Word of the Year. The choice sparked a rash of comments wondering whether people were becoming more self-centred. But why selfie? Many people would say it’s slang, and slang doesn’t belong in a...