


MAPPING TIME IN ENGLISH
Prepositions like AT, ON and IN are used in English to say where things exist in space or time. Our brains try to organise space into three dimensions, and we use a similar system to describe time. One-dimensional points are moments in time and English usually fixes...
A FISTFUL OF PHRASES
‘Bunch’ is an interesting word. You may know that you can buy a bunch of grapes or a bunch of flowers, but did you know that one of its most common applications is for a bunch of idiots? English uses a lot of these “link” words to introduce groups and quantities of...FALSE FRIENDS AT WORK For now, this is the last of my mini-series on false friends for Spanish speakers of Business English. I’ve looked at linguistic low-lifes in the areas of Food and the Human Body, so to finish, here are the worst words that can trip you up in the...
