It’s a Cinch
Oh, English. It’s like you’re trying to trip us up with similar words that mean slightly different things.
Category: Language
Heroes, Just for One Day
It is said that my generation doesn’t have heroes. We do, it’s just … complicated.
Olly Olly Oxen Free
The first time I heard the word bucolic, I thought it was a synonym for colic. But its origin is so much stranger than that.
That awesome moment when your writing comes alive
Last night, I spent 4 minutes writing a short piece of dialogue. Seconds later, an editor halfway across the world was reading it out on YouTube. Welcome to the awesome and surreal world of the digital writers’ festival.
I’m OK, you’re OK
OK is a very strange word with an even stranger history. How did it become such a giant in world trading vocabulary?
English, across the zees
Oh, that hurt. I have Americanized my website, swapping esses for zees, swapping licence for license and removing that all-important letter u from color.