Although I'm not keen on labels, I have decided that I am autotelic, and I have created the Learn English (Online) Network on autotelic principles, without even realising it. Autotelic - Not an everyday word, but one that I've decided all learners should know. It is composed of two Greek roots: auto (self), and telos […]
A small college in Michigan, Lake Superior State University has released its annual list of "banished words and phrases" There are 14 words and phrases that they consider so overused, misused and hackneyed that they deserve to be consigned to a permanent linguistic trash can in the year ahead. I hope they don't mind if […]