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Shine Brighter with These Light-Themed Idioms
💡Language lights up when idioms enter the scene! From “light at the end of the tunnel” to “in the spotlight,” these expressions add brilliance to your writing and speech.
✨ Explore 25+ idioms that capture clarity, hope, and energy. Perfect for students, writers, and language lovers!
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Sunday morning and fresh scones (lemon and rosemary) from a local bakery.
Split the presentation with Devon method (clotted cream followed by jam) and Cornwall method (jam first topped with clotted cream), but the question still remains, does scone rhyme with ‘gone’ or ‘bone’?
I know - just opening up a huge debate on what should be a relaxing Sunday!
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What Does “Green” Really Mean?
Green isn’t just a color—it’s a story. 🌿 From envy and inexperience to eco-conscious living, “green” idioms reveal how deeply color shapes our thoughts and language. Want to sound more fluent, expressive, and vivid in conversation? This list of green idioms will give your English that fresh edge. Dive in and discover what “green with envy” or “a greenhorn” really means.
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acquiesce

/intransitive verb/

: to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively —often used with in or to

"[...] these zealous radicals promote expansion of their terrorist theocracy through barbarism and torture to traumatize victims to acquiesce and submit to forced conversion to Islam."

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acquiesce

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ostentation

/noun/

: excessive display : vain and unnecessary show especially for the purpose of attracting attention, admiration, or envy

: (still negatively) display; especially, public display, show; ceremony

https://www.wordnik.com/words/ostentation

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So, I do like using "whom" when appropriate (and when I remember). How to know when to use "whom" instead of "who"? Just turn the statement around. "Who I adore?" or "Whom I adore?" -- turn it around. "I adore him / her / them," then use "whom"!

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I move that Trump's executive orders be now called executive ordures.

I have to say, I don't hear ordure often used in English. In fact, I cannot remember ever hearing it in English.

But it exists.

In French, it means trash. In English, it means shit.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ordure

Usage example:

"Grab the toilet paper. The president produced another executive ordure."

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pertinent

/adjective/

having a clear decisive relevance to the matter in hand

Vocab: Merriam-Webster https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pertinent

"You must promptly update [...] with any changes affecting you, [...] or any other pertinent information."

Reading: Stripe's KYC Obligations
https://support.stripe.com/questions/know-your-customer-obligations

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The Small World of English

https://www.inotherwords.app/linguabase/

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poignant

/adjective/

: painfully affecting the feelings

: deeply affecting

: designed to make an impression

: pleasurably stimulating

: being to the point

: pungently pervasive

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poignant

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edifying

/adjective/

: instructive or informative in a way that improves the mind or character

"They would discipline us in ways less than edifying," he said.

via https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/edifying

Excerpt is from Dave Mustaine's interview on The Shawn Ryan Show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfOWEKfVGQQ

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https://www.alojapan.com/1286879/how-japanese-introductions-literally-translate-to-english-is-a-wild-linguistics-lesson/ How Japanese introductions literally translate to English is a wild linguistics lesson #EnglishLanguage #EnglishTranslation #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseLanguage #JapaneseNews #Languages #learning #LearningLanguages #linguistics #LiteralTranslations #news #tanslations Is it just me or has the world become increasingly silent? Don’t get me wrong, we’re certainly bombarded by things fighting for our attention—ads, content distributed by…

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So, I'm realizing that very often, I don't use personal pronouns in my writing. For example, I just wrote, "Looking forward to posting more videos..." Yes, I know I should write, "I'm looking forward" or "I am looking forward" but I often find myself leaving out "I am". Been doing that for years now. Anyone else? Or is it just me?
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@yvanspijk
Relatedly, the initial “w” is still retained in many (perhaps most) English speakers' pronunciation of e.g. “wren”, “write”, “writ”, “wrap”, in spite of those vowels being unrounded.

#phonetics #EnglishLanguage

@yvanspijk

I'd maintain that “who”, “whom” and “whose” certainly DIDN'T lose the initial “W element”. It's still there, as the lips are rounded and the tongue dorsum is raised even before, and while, the [h] is sounded in these words.

Speech doesn't work like alphabetic writing.

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A new blog post at Geneanet (a French genealogy website) presents information on Pope Leo XIV's roots from Louisiana, Cuba, and France (his maternal grandparents); last week they did a post on his paternal European grandparents.

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