Mixed Grill

For those of you who are familiar with the character, Mrs. Malaprop in Sheridan's play, "The Rivals," written in 1775, gave birth to the noun, malapropism- the unintentional misuse of...

It's clear from evidence and information at our disposal that often, people, especially composers of the words, are uncertain whether to pluralise the nouns, "evidence," and "information," in similar cases...

It has become imperative to take a second look at phonetics as the science concerned with pronunciation and the presentation of speech sound. Owing to our regional dialectic influence, or...

This week's lesson we are delving into the world of clichés to remind us of spent phrases or over used vocabularies that have lost their bites and are no longer...

One can never, never exhaust in a single breath, the group of the vocabulary that sounds similar, but means different things, such as this one, "cater for" and "cater to."...

The two adjectival words with dis- unprefixes, "disinterested" and "uninterested" have seemingly been misapplied or confused altogether by several writers who could hardly separate the two. The misrepresentation of the...

We are confronted yet, with another in the family of homophone, the nouns, "reign" and "rein," that I would say are the writer's albatross, if not carefully thought out before...

At the mention of the noun, "grammar," often evoke and attract different thoughts and comments to define the meaning of the two-syllable expression. To some, it conjures using flowery words...

Often, the clear-cut writer who wants to be understood by the majority of the audience would never fail to recognise and appreciate the need to sound simple and straightforward. And...

They are grouped in the family of sound alike statements that could easily be confused for the other, but are different in meaning. Technically, as one of the English purists...