Do you sound right for the job?
Everyone knows it's illegal for an employer to discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity and national origin. But what about an...
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Sets of letters or numbers, e.g. GST, GPS, USB, CBD, USA, H2O, 021 and 111. To say the set of numbers out loud, say the first letters or...
The Glass Ceiling Facing Nonnative English Speakers
In an interview this summer, Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator — the tech accelerator that has funded a number of successful...
8 pronunciation errors that made the English language what it is today
Someone I know tells a story about a very senior academic giving a speech. Students shouldn't worry too much, she says, if their plans...
Know your word: Abhorrent
Abhorrent describes something truly horrible like finding a dead rat in your soup, but something aberrant is just abnormal, like a cat in...
