Pengarang: Rhodes Chloe Rhodes

‘A thoroughly entertaining and absorbing little publication, set out in an accessible and easy-to-read style’ – The Bookbag Why are geese in a gaggle? Are crows really murderous? And what makes lions …

English as we know it today is enriched with many borrowings and influences from other languages. Aficionado, chutzpah, pro bono, hoi polloi, ketchup, nous, zeitgeist – we use these foreign words …

Many of the popular, often prophetic, phrases that we use on a day-to-day basis have their roots in traditional folklore. For example: ‘One swallow doesn’t make a summer’; ‘March comes in like a lion …