Great Southern Road Trip Posted by sasha on May 8, 2017
There are some things that are very distinctly American – apple pie, bald eagles, monster truck rallies, and the road trip. Packing up the car and hitting the open road is a great American tradition. In a country as big as the US, there are plenty of options. A west coast road trip can bring…
The Dying Art of Cursive in English Posted by Gary Locke on May 4, 2017
Cursive is any writing in which the letters are joined together in a flowing manner. In English, we call this penmanship in longhand. It is also known as writing in script. Whatever you call it, this is becoming a disappearing skill. The letters in English cursive writing always loop, eventually finding and connecting with each…
The World’s Best Selling Author Posted by Gary Locke on Apr 28, 2017
She was Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE. She was a world traveler, an accomplished archeologist, a pharmacist, a philanthropist, and remains the most successful novelist of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. You know her as Agatha Christie. If you are going to talk about writers of the English language, you must…
English Vocab for Drinkers Posted by Gary Locke on Apr 21, 2017
Learning English isn’t easy. It’s a complicated, sometimes almost incomprehensible language with rules that rarely seem to make any sense. In fact, it sometimes seems that English was made up by people who were drunk. Which brings me to the subject of today’s blog. The English language is filled with colorful words and phrases for…
Why I, I Wonder? Posted by Gary Locke on Apr 14, 2017
In the English language, I is the nominative singular pronoun, used in reference to oneself, and it is always capitalized. No other language singles out and capitalizes this pronoun, only English. We don’t capitalize any other pronoun, me, my, mine, we, us, our… The question is – why? The most obvious answer is because English…
A Short Trip in Nashville Posted by sasha on Apr 13, 2017
Nashville is the capital of Tennessee, and it’s also known as Music City. There’s lots to see and do here, including parks, museums, sports, great food and beer, and of course, plenty of music. See what you can do with a short trip in Nashville in this video: “Welcome to Nashville – the capital of…
Great American Cities – Nashville Posted by sasha on Apr 10, 2017
We’re staying in the south on our trip around the great cities of the USA. This time, we’re off to a city that’s all about the music – Nashville. Name – The city was named after Francis Nash, a general during the Revolutionary War. He was one of only ten Patriot generals who died in…