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Estamos en la Calle Melquíades Álvarez, 16 – 1ºDcha
33002 Oviedo
Robin Webb
Robin es profesor de inglés establecido en Asturias, España, desde 1994.
Email: academiadeinglesrobin@gmail.com
Tfno: 605968484
Estamos en la Calle Melquíades Álvarez, 16 – 1ºDcha
33002 Oviedo
Robin es profesor de inglés establecido en Asturias, España, desde 1994.
Email: academiadeinglesrobin@gmail.com
Tfno: 605968484
Two extraordinary records from a year that was anything but ordinary: Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’ and ‘Evermore’. In a year that forced all of us to do things differently, here is some of what Taylor did. I don’t feel like going into the meanings that these songs may have. You’ve got the internet for that. And … Sigue leyendo Taylor Swift in 2020
Teenage Fanclub’s song ‘Ain’t That Enough’ is wondrous, fabulous, marvellous and tremendous. ‘-ous’ adjectives are all about something possessing or being full of something. The sound it makes is a simple /əs/. The sound that Teenage Fanclub make is simply glorious. Enough said*. ‘Ain’t’ is a non-standard (so not to be used in writing, exams … Sigue leyendo Ain’t that enough?
I’d really like to believe that many of the strange but charming nouns of assemblage (aka specific group nouns or collective nouns) that exist were the result of drunken mischief at the end of a lexicographers’ Christmas party. Or something like that. How else could you explain the fact that if you came across a … Sigue leyendo An Accumulation of Strangeness
I’ll never forget the first time I read ‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’. It was very early in the morning and I was rather hungover, lying on the floor of a cold but otherwise welcoming house in Dublin. The pages of the book (my own copy, pictured above) were fragile even then. Almost … Sigue leyendo Two Fingers: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and other tales of defiance