I’ve been searching the internet to find out why we say “Hello?” when answering the phone in the United States, and surprisingly, that is not what the father of the…Continue readingHow do you answer the phone?
My friends consider me somewhat of a Grammar and Pronunciation Nazi. It grates on my nerves to see and hear words/phrases spelled and pronounced incorrectly. A mispronunciation that I have…Continue readingMispronunciation
May 5th (by the way, that is not a typo – months of the year in Spanish are not capitalized) is NOT Mexican Independence Day, and is not widely celebrated…Continue readingCinco de mayo
My original thought on audiobooks was that it could not truly be considered “reading” if there was no physical book in my hands. After all, part of the excitement was…Continue readingAudiobooks Are Addicting
Since learning to read, language has been my passion. I devoured books as a youngster. Of course, the Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys series as well as the Little House on the…Continue readingLove Affair with Language
