English
epub |eng | 2011-07-14 | Author:Collins [Collins]

it’s see its – it’s its – it’s ‘its’ You use its to show that something belongs to a thing, place or animal. He held the knife by its handle. ...
( Category: English July 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-16 | Author:Garry Cranford

M machine, chummy-jigger ~ A substitue name for something that doesn’t come to mind right away; an unusal or unfamiliar object. mackerel ~ The Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus). Related to ...
( Category: English July 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-22 | Author:Susie Dent [Dent, Susie]

How many words are there in English? Language is first and foremost a spoken medium—fewer than a thousand of the world’s 6,800 languages have writing systems—and as such the number ...
( Category: Etymology July 4,2020 )
azw |eng | 2015-06-11 | Author:Richard Hall

( Category: English March 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-10 | Author:Collins

holiday There is only one L and one D. Remember that a holiday was originally a holy day. horrible There are two R’s – just the same as in terrible. ...
( Category: English March 11,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2018-11-14 | Author:Collins Dictionaries

( Category: Dictionaries March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-07 | Author:Butterfield, Jeremy;

guild see gild. guillemot, the name of a bird, is pronounced gil-i-mot. gullible, meaning ‘easily fooled or cheated’, is spelt -ible not -able. gunwale, meaning ‘the upper edge of a ...
( Category: English February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-18 | Author:Rubinstein, Marv. [Rubinstein, Marv]

fish sticks (food) fish fingers fish store fishmonger fisherman angler fit to be tied fit to tie fittings fitments flabbergasted gobsmacked (s) flag stop railway halt flagpole torch; electric torch
( Category: English February 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-13 | Author:Varkey, Gijo [Varkey, Gijo]

( Category: English February 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-30 | Author:Jeremy Butterfield

( Category: Grammar January 19,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2010-07-22 | Author:Angus Stevenson [Stevenson, Angus]

( Category: English December 12,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-20 | Author:Rosalind Fergusson

D 15.1 dab 1.1 dabber 2.8 dabble 2.28 dabbler 2.12 dabbling 2.42 dabchick 2.21 dabs 1.2 dace 7.30 dacha 2.14 dachshund 2.36 dachshunds 2.37 dacoit 33.13 dacoits 33.14 dacoity 34.1 ...
( Category: Word Lists June 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Robert Hartwell Fiske [Fiske, Robert Hartwell]

* * * Again, in U.S. Senate and House Committee hearings, the FDA conceded that the packaging and recalled drug violations were minor and posed no immanent health hazard to ...
( Category: Word Lists June 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-14 | Author:Joseph T. Shipley [Shipley, Joseph T.]

lambitive. A medicine to be taken by licking, often given (in the 17th and 18th centuries) on the end of a licorice stick. Latin lambere, lambitus, to lick, whence lambent ...
( Category: English May 27,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Norman W. Schur

not best pleased not too happy not by a long chalk, Inf. Inf. not by a long shot Britons waste their time playing various pool and billiard games, while Americans ...
( Category: English May 10,2016 )