James Clarence Mangan es un poeta cuya estatua en Dublín tiene más fotógrafos que lectores sus obras. Un día pasando por delante de la misma me percaté de que el argótico verbo mangar seguramente tiene bastante que ver con llevarse algo escondido en la manga. Tengo que ampliar el mapa que hice en su día. Con los lugares dublineses donde me había encontrado dinero para agregar la cartera con más de trescientos euros que se me apareció en. Creo que todo el mundo conoce est.

Jakiś czas temu poszliśmy sobie na spacer do Lasku Bielańskiego. Chodziliśmy dróżkami, które prowadziły do. muru, ale jakiego! Graffitti to świetny pomysł na taki szary, szpitalny mur. Tutaj grafficiarz raczej nie znał języka angielskiego, chociaż kto wie. Żółwik jest mądry, wie, że ludzie w dzisiejszych czasach zbyt szybko się przemieszczają. Friday, 18 July 2014. Mała rzecz - a j.

The name of the game. I have a confession to make. These are not gambling games I hasten to add. One site I use is CardGames. And one of the games I play is whist. A few days ago it occurred to me to ask myself why it is called whist. Here is a possible answer from the OED.

Like that feeling you get when you set an impossibly difficult exam and watch the faces of your students when they read it. But it has been used in English for at least a hundred years now. The equivalent in Chinese is 幸灾乐祸. But what about Malay? Does Malay not have a word for this? Do Malays really never experience this kind of joy? Another word.

Observations, thoughts, reminiscences, and occasional rants on anthropology, linguistics, old-time banjo, and anything else that crosses my path. Wednesday, March 21, 2018. Sunday, February 11, 2018. Social Science at the Olympics. In the West, and especially the US, the encu.

Friday, June 21, 2013. In BrE, collective nouns such as. The family next door are. Always shouting at each other. Is followed by a no.

A blog for A Level English Language students and teachers. Started in south London, continued in Essex. Tuesday, February 27, 2018. Cambridge Topics in English Language. Just a quick plug for these books. Monday, December 18, 2017. Why language is a mirror of our times.

For those who enjoy phonetics and phonology of the English language.

Some thoughts on EFL from Mexico. I just finished end of level testing with a group of adult students at a local company who are supposed to be at A1 CEF. I was looking for good ideas for post-exam review classes. An alternative, or additional, exercise would be to treat longer audio scripts as a cloze or as a gap-fill ex.