Usage and grammar guides

The English language is a versatile and agile thing, and as our world changes, so too does the way we use it.

Did you know that Almost is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order?

With the recent scrapping of GCSEs fresh in everyones minds, The O Level Book is the perfect book to settle that age-old argument between the generations: were the exams of yesteryear really harder than anything children have to face today in the age of calculators and spell checkers?

The rhetorical question is one of those grammatical quirks that just doesnt seem to have any logic to it; a question that doesnt require an answer - what kind of question is that?

In the last thirty years or so a large number of once commonplace words, phrases and expressions have disappeared without trace from common usage.