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Thanks to my father being a sailor from his cap to his sea-boots, I grew up in a world of marine language. It took me many years to realise that a deck was a floor to all my school friends.

It was Blood Donor Day earlier this week and I started thinking about medical language. Not the Latin tongue twisters but some of the everyday verbs we use to describe and discuss illness.

Africa is big. Really Big. There are people who fail to realize that Africa is a continent of 54 countries with between 1250 and 2100 languages – which includes dialects but not English, French, Spanish and Portuguese

Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote , "The pen is mightier than the sword..." in 1839. On National Press Freedom Day with 'fake news' and social media is this still true?

English has borrowed words and phrases – on a permanent basis – from so many languages including Latin, German, Greek, and French.

What is special about Business English? There are a number of do and do not as a teacher.

I am always amazed that in a world with such wonderful playwrights I ask why do we still study Shakespeare? His language doth make mine eyes water!

Those invaders brought words with strange sounds which have changed over time and merged with the words which they found.

Do you have a favourite book about women being strong in cultural or other circumstances which an outsider may think is actually discounting those women?

Why is it like this in English? The origins of English and Saxon English changed the plural of words

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