You can test your English vocabulary using this test from Ghent University. They claim to be using American spelling, but an American in my household would tell you that’s not entirely true. The spelling may be American, but some of the words are surely British.
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“Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
Doris Lessing has died. Here is what New York Times had to say. Her speech when she won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2007 is here.
me? my name is ‘ladda’
Dan and I went to the movies today, and one of the previews was for the History Channel’s series ‘Vikings’. As I was watching it I realized there wasn’t one Scandinavian actor to be seen, or heard. Which gave me the same chuckle as the English language version of the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo: English speaking actors playing Scandinavian characters that don’t know how to pronounce their own names. In The Girl, etc. Daniel Craig knocks on a door and says “Hi, I’m Mikael Blomquist”, butchering both his first and last name beyond recognition. It’s too funny, and too unnecessary.