Today’s post is the final segment on a short history of the English language. In the last post, I talked about the impact of invasions from the Vikings and the Normans on the English language. In this video, I’ll share […]
We ended the last post in this series in 793 CE. If you guessed that this is when heathens called Vikings from the north arrived from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, you would be correct! A heathen is a person who […]
The English language has evolved (or changed) a great deal over time. It’s interesting and worth knowing a little about, so today’s post is part one of three parts all about the history of the English language. It’s a long […]
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 […]
Hello loverly English language learners. It’s Morksensei. Welcome back to my channel. What is reading in English so important? Most people who are learning English as a second or foreign language soon learn to speak English well enough to communicate […]
This is part 2 of my COVID19 story, which is about my stay in hospital and after getting out. Check out part one if first if you haven’t read it yet. So the story continues. My first 10 days in […]