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Yesterday I blogged about the publication of the new Concise Oxford English Dictionary and as I wrote I wondered what happened to the words that were literally pushed out of the dictionary to make way for new words. A journalist friend seemingly telepathically picked up my query and sent me a link to an article that provided . . . → Read More: Disappearing words As a true Brit I do love my tea. I have now been living in China, the birthplace of tea, for eight years yet I bring back loose tea and tea bags from the UK so I can brew a good cuppa! When I saw that the British Chamber of Commerce in Beijing was hosting an afternoon . . . → Read More: English – The international language of tea Reading an article online in the Daily Mail about the release of the US brand ‘Candwich’ led me to consider the practice of joining words together to make new ones. This process is known as portmanteau, itself a word made of two words combined together – it originates from the French word portemanteau, combining porter (to carry) . . . → Read More: Englackers? Portmanteau words |
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