Tag Archives: English

Root, route and rout

Posted 27 days ago by John Gray

The words ‘root’ and ‘route’ are homophones in British English (in other words, they are pronounced in the same way), whilst most Americans would pronounce ‘route’ to rhyme with ‘out’ or ‘shout’. The root is that part of a plant …

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The history of dollar

Posted 61 days ago by John Gray

The word dollar has a curious and convoluted history. It is derived, as a word, from Thaler, which itself comes from the the Joachimsthal silver mine in Bohemia. In 1519, the silver from Joachimsthal was first used to mint the …

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Vindaloo, Palaver, Marmalade: Lusitanianisms in English

Posted 170 days ago by John Gray

Caipirinha, Capoeira, Samba – everyone knows a few words that English has adopted from Portuguese. But there is a notably extensive sub-strata of words which English owes to Portuguese. In the days of their vast maritime empire, the Portuguese propagated …

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Counsellor!

Posted 240 days ago by John Gray

I have a strange auditory tic. Every time I see or hear the word ‘counsellor’, the massed choir of Handel’s Messiah [if you are short of time, go directly to 2:45] floods my brain, specifically the chorus based on Isaiah …

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Different ways to be elegant whilst sleeping

Posted 276 days ago by John Gray

Yesterday I spent a pleasant afternoon trawling Barcelona’s bookshops for Viscount Lascano Tegui’s De la elegancia mientras se duerme. The Viscount was not actually a viscount, but an Argentinian writer who lived in Paris in the early Twentieth Century, was …

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