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...
FURTHER FALSE FRIENDS: FOOD
Further False friendsLast time, I looked at the false friends that Spanish speakers of Business English can encounter when talking about health and the body. In this blog, I will extend my investigations to include the linguistic traps to avoid when you’re talking...
PERFIDIOUS ENGLISH: YOUR BODY
Men can get embarrassed as easily as women, but it’s trickier for a man to get pregnant. This is one of the many false friends and other traps that lie in wait for Spanish speakers of Business English. These are important errors because they can make you feel stupid...