If you're new to the eleven-plus you might think the questions those fiendish examiners set are usually quite similar each year. It only takes a little digging through the data, however, to realise…
Whilst some languages and cultures are very focused on keeping the words they use 'pure' or 'original' (France and Japan for example) the English language has always been a melting point of mixtures…
The English language contains a variety of rules around spelling, and just when children think they're getting to grips with those, they happen upon something even weirder, surname pronunciations. Take, for example, the…
What's the collective noun for... There are very many collective nouns, or to use their more correct name, nouns of assemblage, that are used to describe specific groups of animals. Some of them…