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Yet is our understanding of her intent seriously handicapped by her incorrect use of the verb ‘to be’? Most people would still grasp the intention — to enquire as to our whereabouts on the previous day. This is not to say she should not sometimes be gently corrected, but to criticise her would be an …

  With all this in mind, the aim of this blog entry is to introduce another facet of the subject: different accents. Thanks to different accents found throughout the English-speaking world, the pronunciation of certain words changes radically. For example, let’s look at the practice of intervocalic alveolar flapping, or simply, ‘flapping.’ It’s a phonological …

With all this in mind, the aim of this blog entry is to introduce another facet of the subject: different accents. Thanks to different accents found throughout the English-speaking world, the pronunciation of certain words changes radically. For example, let’s look at the practice of intervocalic alveolar flapping, or simply, ‘flapping.’ It’s a phonological process …

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When you receive your exam paper, use the first two minutes of the exam to look at the exam paper from the first page to the last page. Compositions are not guaranteed to be part of the paper but if one is requested in the exam paper, then make sure you leave enough time to …

When starting at Callan School, many students are often too shy to speak for fear of making mistakes in pronouncing a word /words correctly. Making mistakes is a natural part of any learning process and only by making mistakes do we learn from them. Every student, in every class, in every level, makes mistakes and …

  In 2003, Dr. Bert Vaux, a former Harvard professor who now teaches at the University of Cambridge, devised a list of various vocabulary terms and expressions and, armed with this ‘test,’ asked tens of thousands of people across the country how their personal lexicons compared to the distinctions he had come up with.  His …