MIND OUR ENGLISH
Articles from May 2011
May 26: At exactly 12
YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED By FADZILAH AMIN
May 26: Moving only
READER Tam Yong Yuee sent in this snippet about Professor Ernest Brennecke of Columbia who is credited with inventing a sentence that can be made to have eight different meanings by placing one word in all possible positions in the sentence, “I hit him in the eye yesterday.” The word is “only”.
May 25: A teaching moment
High school play seizes power from the N-word.
May 20: Language and places
A brief look at cognates and derivatives in the context of etymology and place-names.
May 19: That was
YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED By FADZILAH AMIN.
May 13: Grammar couplets
By OH TEIK THEAM
May 12: Word of the letter
YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED by FADZILAH AMIN.
May 11: Sloppy work
Carelessness mars a good read
May 6: Word fix
Looking at the ways in which abstract nouns are formed and used.
May 5: Spot the error
YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED by FADZILAH AMIN.
May 4: Mum’s the word
Words related to the person who gave each of us life.
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