We’ve talked about eggcorns, malapropisms, and mondegreens so far in the series, so now it’s time for spoonerisms. A spoonerism is a speech phenomenon in which the initial parts of a group of words that commonly go together are transposed […]
Welcome to part three in a series of mistakes native English speakers make. First, we talked about eggcorns, then about malapropisms, and in today’s post, we’re going to have a look at another phenomenon with another strange name – mondegreens. […]
Today’s post is about malapropisms. Malapropisms have a lot in common with eggcorns—they involve one word being improperly used in place of another. In contrast to an eggcorn, however, there isn’t much logic involved in creating a malapropism; it’s usually […]
This is the first post in a series about mistakes that native English speakers commonly make. Native speakers in any language can make these types of mistakes, and linguistics can help us understand why. Today we explore a phenomenon called […]
So you’ve been studying English for the last 10 years or more, and you still can’t really speak it? Actually, you’re not alone. In fact, of all the people who try to learn English (or any second language) at some […]
One thing that is true when you are trying to get good at anything is that motivation goes up and down, despite how desperately or strongly we want to achieve something. This is true for learning a foreign language, a […]
Welcome to the last post in my introductory series about political science. The topic of today is development. A common way to measure a country’s development is by measuring its economic growth. However, if only a small minority of people […]
In the previous post, we learned about the competing interests of capital owners and workers. Because of that competition, compromise is necessary if the people of a country want to have both a democratic political system and a capitalist economic […]
We’re continuing our introductory political science series in this post, talking about democracy and capitalism. Like many other countries, my country – Canada – is both a democracy and a country with a capitalist economy. Democracy is a political system […]
Welcome to the 13th post in an introductory series about political science in easy (or simplified) English. The topic of this post is globalization. Globalization refers to the increased movement of people, information, and goods that has resulted from quick improvements […]