Friday, December 27, 2019

Microlesson: Describing Fear

This week's microlesson is on the topic of fear. It covers the vocabulary phobia and terrified and discusses the usage of the words fear, afraid and frightened.

See it here:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/microlessons/index.html?&1&abl

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Friday, December 20, 2019

Origin of the Word HOOLIGAN

Here's one for the word nerds. I was wondering where the word HOOLIGAN comes from and whether it's related to the Old English word ...