Search This Blog

Thursday, 28 October 2021

Do You Know the Meaning of These Foreign Words We Use in English?

It all started when I couldn’t remember if an apéritif was a before-dinner or after-dinner drink. (Correction: I said it was a before-dinner drink—the “per” in apéritif being reminiscent of the prefix “pre”—then my husband said he thought it was after-dinner, then I doubted myself.) Which, as someone who studied and…

Read more...

No comments:

Post a Comment