Both ‘amid’ and ‘amidst’ are prepositions and they mean the same thing, technically. A preposition is…
Category: British vs American English
Clap him or clap for him: All the explanation you need
Do you say ‘clap for him’ or ‘clap him’? Which of them is correct? We will…
Affordable Ebook for WAEC, IELTS, JAMB, etc: Questions, answers, explanations…
You’ve seen and studied questions/answers books, but would you love to see one with a simplified…
Who exactly is a ‘vulcanizer’?
In Nigeria, ‘vulcanizers’ do general maintenance work on vehicle tyres. They patch up punctured tyres, maintain…
Quotation marks: uses, rules, British/American styles
Quotation marks (inverted commas) are one of the unique punctuation marks in English. They’re generally used…
‘see’ or ‘watch’ a movie: All you should know
Most of us know we can see a movie when we go to the cinema, but when to…
Long time no see: Not a Nigerian Pidgin expression
The expression long time no see is not a phrase coined by Nigerian Pidgin users as believed by…
Do you pronounce ‘Tuesday’ correctly?
Research shows the word ‘Tuesday’ is mispronounced by a large number of people. In British English,…
Writing dates: British and American styles
There are various ways of writing calendar dates in English. We can talk about writing formally…
Anyway and anyways: before you use them next time
Anyway and anyways have always been a pair of words contending with each other across the…
Mx: a new word taking over?
English language is evolving—that’s a fact; some words have been coined and used for over 30…
‘Presently’ and ‘at present’: what you should always remember
These words have generated a lot of arguments over the years and some grammarians have refused…