Keeping favour and being favourable mightn’t seem all that different from each other, but it’s just one letter that separates both. Something might suit another thing, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that you should tell it so. Confused? In today’s Grammar 101, we clear up the difference between politesse and accompaniment in a handy and easy-to-remember diagram. Like [...]

Those whose profession depends on its daily use say it—dieticians, nutritionists, personal trainers—yet they’re all wrong. It’s enough to make you want to instigate a dictatorship, enforce a law banning them from using ‘regime’ incorrectly and then buy a heck of a lot of shoes. Admittedly, totalitarianism does have its perks. In today’s Grammar 101, we [...]

Here at I Do Believe I Came with a Hat our motto is ‘Education through Ridicule’, or in Latin, ‘Arseholus Smarmius’. Consider me the concerned friend who tells you you’re looking fat not because I don’t want to be seen with you, but because your shirt buttons are at bursting point and they might have [...]