Or if you prefer, The Day of the Dead. Which is today, because confusingly, yesterday was All Saints’ Day (AKA All Hallows’ Day). Both days are quite different though.
Another couple of weeks, another European leader whose name we need to figure out how to pronounce.
Yes, it’s Hallowe’en again! Time to have a look at an appropriately spooky word. But first, a challenge:
Can you think of an English word, not borrowed from another language, that has an accent or other diacritic? (a diacritic is simply any glyph added to a letter: see here for examples).
Have you ever noticed that riveting can have two meanings? It can mean fascinating, but also the action of fixing rivets (metal pins) to a surface (I was thinking about this recently after hearing someone talk about the riveters who worked on the Titanic). It might seem odd that it can have these two meanings, but if you think about it, it makes sense.
A pretty simple one today: this is something that many people are curious about. Both are clearly similar, but what’s the difference between them?
English-Language Thoughts 