Posts in English
Feeling blue?
Do you suffer from the January blues? January has all the ingredients for us to feel low; it’s cold, we’re short on money because we spent too much in December and we’ve probably put[…]
Are you a shooista? Do you sharent?
How many words are there in the English language? Isn’t that an impossible question to answer? Every year new words are introduced and other words leave the dictionary. This post’s title has two words that appeared for[…]
Yuletide, Christmas and winter solstices
December 21, the winter Solstice, is a magical date for many people. It is considered to be the shortest day (and the longest night) of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and during this time,[…]
The Person of the Year
December is the month when newspapers and the internet are full of end-of-year quizzes and lists of the top 10 most important or dramatic or surprising events that took place in the previous 11 months. Other end-of-year[…]
Read all about it. Read all about it.
The way we read the news has changed a lot over the last 20 years. Although many people still choose to buy a daily newspaper at the newsagent’s every morning on their way to work,[…]