A Christmas story
A Christmas story. Ella Gray. A Christmas Story from an Australian Christmas collection: stories, sketches, essays by James Francis Hogan published in 1880. Christmas being, proverbially and traditionally the time for family …
Shakespeare dictionary
Shakespeare dictionary of aphoristic short quotes and literary definitions (part 1), from Absence to Fathers by English-Culture and Carl William Brown. All men who repeat a line from Shakespeare are William Shakespeare. …
Shakespeare quotes dictionary
Shakespeare quotes dictionary, William Shakespeare aphoristic short quotes dictionary (part 2), from Faults to Worshippers by the author Carl William Brown for the World of English. He is of no age, nor …
Short glossary of literary terms
Short Glossary of literary terms an article that offers an introduction to the short dictionary of literary terms, a free e-book edited by Carl William Brown Every discourse on language, art and …
English collocations words
English collocations words, an analysis of this important aspect of the language with rules, examples and references to the main collocations dictionaries. The most vital part of any language is “vocabulary”, that …
English phrasal verbs
English phrasal verbs, an analysis of this important aspect of the language with rules and examples, plus some useful links to free dictionaries and PDF files. In English traditional grammar, a phrasal …
English, Greek and Latin
English, Greek and Latin, an article that explains how much the English language has been influenced and modified by the ancient Greek and Latin languages of the classical world. Why is it …
American slang Part 1
American slang is the body of words and expressions frequently used by or intelligible to a rather large portion of the general American public, but not accepted as good, formal usage by …