American English
We really have everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. Oscar Wilde The King’s English is not …
Celtic Languages
A society that has no respect, no regard for its bards, its historians, its storytellers, is a society in steep …
American slang Part 2
The counters merely say that the person is rejected – he does not belong to the group. In uttering the …
The language of Slang
The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up …
Latin Language
Loquendum ut vulgus, Sentiendum ut Sapientes. Omnia vincit amor, et nos cedamus amori. Love conquers all things; let us yield …
Latin phrases in English
Humanum genus est avidum nimis auricularum. (Lucrezio) Mankind is too greedy for lies. Vita brevis, ars longa, occasio praeceps, experimentum …
Latin and English
English is a Germanic language, with a grammar and a core vocabulary inherited from Proto-Germanic. However, a significant portion of …
The blend of English
There is no such thing as ”the Queen’s English.” The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock …