Like Appelsin and Oranges
What happens when words deceive? They may look or sound alike, but they’re not your friend…
Danglers gone wild
With its bendy grammar rules and bottomless vocabulary pit, English is a playground for the verbal daredevils.
More rules you need to unlearn
If your teacher filled your head with grammar mythology and outdated rules, we’re here to clear up the confusion.
What’s the difference between teach and learn?
English is peppered with confusing verb pairs. So how do you know which word to use?
Rein, reign, go away
Use the wrong metaphor or idiom, and it’s likely your audience will get stuck on the blooper .
Rules you need to unlearn
No matter what kind of teacher you had, you probably have the same set of silly rules as the rest of us.
Hyphen Happy
With hyphens there seem to be as many exceptions as there are rules.
5 English words Danes misuse
English and Danish share common roots, but not every word works the same.
Hello and goodbye
English being English, nothing is simple – not even saying hello
Mistakes Danes make in English (part II)
We see Danes make the same mistakes in English time and time again. Are you guilty of any of these?
Mistakes Danes make in English (Part I)
We see Danes make the same mistakes in English time and time again. Are you guilty of any of these?
When many equals one
English is littered with expressions that make no sense when taken literally.
The apostrophe catastrophe
You can’t swing a cat these days without hitting a sign that misuses the arduous apostrophe.
There’s versus there are
Millions of competent English speakers – from BBC newsreaders to university lecturers- make this common grammatical mistake. There’s people from all over the world here or there’s 15 apples in the basket are examples of this type of error that even astute English speakers may let slip. It’s a question of singular or plural There’s [...]
I or me?
Even native English speakers get the words ‘I’ and ‘me’ mixed up.
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