Posts Tagged ‘lexis’

Literary figures in everyday speech

In one of my recent classes, we were discussing the way in which the use of social media inside authoritarian countries like Russia, China and Iran is almost always monitored, and how posting something that's deemed to be subversive or…

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Why teachers shouldn’t prefer blonde

I recently asked a couple of colleagues which word they thought was more frequent - arise or blonde. Almost immediately, the answer blonde came back. However, despite the confidence of the response, according to the British National Corpus (BNC) and…

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