Verity Price brings home authenticity
Idioms add colourful expressions to the language. This post looks at the origin and usage to better understand English and use phrases correctly. This one is about 'dog and pony show'
Mask wearing is what we see to avoid a Covid infection
Don’t let Covid kill! (your sense of humour)
With Covid infection numbers showing no signs of decline and the heartfelt losses that many of us have suffered, you may find that your mental agility is severely challenged. This…
Let them eat cake
Let them eat cake: How idioms originate
With Women's Month well under way, gender equality is still a hot topic. At a gender equality webinar last week, one of the speakers who was trying to break through…
Loss is life-changing
I offer my singular condolence: Grammar
English demands that its users know more than just the meaning of a word. They also must know how it’s used. It’s not okay to slap just any words together.…
I never knew children came in blue
Inspired by Sue de Groot’s column in the Sunday Times, I am writing about my own grammar gremlin findings of the past few days. In this period I read a…
Email accuracy is a must
Is email an art or science? If we consider science as accurately written text and art as anything slapped down on the page, then I would be persuaded to think…
Love what you do?
Loving what you do so that your never ‘work’ a day in your life is a luxury for the wealthy few. For the rest of us, it’s about learning a…
A place for deep thought
6 Essentials of a Thought Leadership Article
Thought leadership is a relatively young term in the business environment, according to my sources, just 19 years old. Yet, it is one that is well-supported if Google’s 948 million…
7 Reasons to Connect with Influencers
Now, more than ever, influencer market is part of strategy. It's all virtual but everybody is doing it and you need to know how to tap in. “It’s not WHAT…
My top 10 in how to use capital letters
There’s nothing worse than being tripped up by capital letters. This means having to wade through a long piece of text crippled by incorrectly used capital letters, and not knowing…
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