Donald Duck makes a surprising appearance in rhyming slang in Scotland!         Does just your Donald make sense to you? It is rhy...

Recent research by Martínez adds another twist to the story of general extenders in spoken English. These are phrases such...

Rich and famous or famous and rich? Why do we say rich and famous rather than famous and rich ? Or profit and loss rathe...

English Language Teaching: Linguistic Resources http://www.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/englishlanguageteaching Our site is an archive...

Discourse markers play a central role in unplanned communication What are discourse-pragmatic markers? They are features of speech which g...

                                    Is espresso a necessary or a luxury loanword? We have espresso from Italian and vodka from Russian....

A thoroughly modern way to teach grammar! How many people reading this blog remember those halcyon days of grammar parsing at sch...

Children start learning to answer questions at a very young age Young children answer many questions every day but at what age do...

Saying 'goodbye' is more complicated than you might think There are many ways to say ‘goodbye’ when we finish a ...

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