Jaymz Boanerges 
Welcome to this interesting post. I’m sure you are getting lots of helpful information on Akademia. This post, Barbing Salon or Barbershop: Which is Correct? expatiates on the correct form of how we describe the place the male folks get a haircut; I know some females visit there too. Almost everybody is guilty of using … Read more
Words convey various meanings to various people; but this does not fundamentally change the meaning of a word in terms of Semantics, which has to do with meaning from the perspective of connotation. However, at the level of Pragmatics, which deals with meaning in context, words can mean anything from the perspective of the user. … Read more
Most speakers of English, especially non-native speakers, confuse many words in English. The reason is not far-fetched: some of these words share certain similarities. For instance, some of these commonly confused words have similar sounds, some have similar spellings while some even have similar sounds, similar spellings but different meanings. (See Homonyms, Homophones and Homographs). … Read more
Hello friend! I have something interesting to share with you. Have you ever come across certain witty expressions or hyphenated words like Crinkum-crankum, bric-a-brac, namby-pamby, nitty-gritty, higgledy-piggledy, etc. and you wondered what English terminology we use in describing them? Well, they are known as Freezes or Reduplications. This post, Crinkum-crankum and Ablaut Reduplications With Examples, … Read more
Hello dear reader, I want to intimate you with one of the basic rudiments of the English Language: Parts of Speech. We also refer to them as Word Classes. They categorise or distribute every word that exists in the English Language into a grammatical family based on shared structural attributes or features; as words in … Read more
Dear reader, what I am about to share with you is very important and you need to pay attention. English as a Second Language Learners, especially in Nigeria, have major challenges when it comes to identifying the correct structural patterns or agreement among the syntactic elements of a sentence. I have, therefore, put together this … Read more
The post, Signal Words: Types, Functions and Examples, introduces and explains with illustrative examples what signal words or sentence connectors are. In the course of your reading any printed text: novels, textbook, newspapers, articles, online posts, etc., have you noted certain words the writers have used to steer your thoughts in some particular directions? Have … Read more
Preamble Hello dear reader! You must have heard the expression, Clichés and may not have really taken time to ask yourself what they really mean. Clichés are an established feature of the English language, being particularly common in spoken English language and in informal written contexts. This post, What is a Cliché? List, Meanings and … Read more
There are several thousand words in English today and one interesting thing about these words is that most of them sound alike, with similar spellings, but have different meanings. See Homonyms. Some have different spellings and meanings but sound alike. Read about Homophones while others have same spellings with different meanings and sound differently. We … Read more
The quest to write this post, Collection of famous English Proverbs You Should Know, came out of the need to intimate our teeming global readers with the numerous proverbs in English. A literary scholar describes proverbs as horses which can carry one to the discovery of ideas sought. He added that ‘a relevant proverb throws … Read more