Mispronunciations that can get on your nerves

Sometimes some people really get on my wig. Just to let you know, I don’t wear a wig but I purposely said it to make a point. What I...

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Don’t name your child Fish and Chips

In some countries, including in Europe, if you try to register your newborn baby’s name, did you know that it might be rejected? To be fair to the registrars...

How to be polite in difficult situations

Everyone in life should try and avoid confrontations and altercations. These can be both physical and verbal and both can lead to a breakdown in relationships at home and...

Many don’t want to talk about the past

In my opinion there are two types of people in the world. Those who reminisce about their past and those who focus on the present and look forward to...

A decades-long quest to quell inflammation

I struggled with a sensitive stomach decades before reducing inflammation became the buzzy way to improve one’s health. I believed I was simply prone to gastrointestinal upset. It got...

Never play hide and seek with your dog

I’m not a cat person or a dog person. I think they’re cute when you see them on social media chasing balls and doing other cute things but, to...

Work is vital

The attitude towards work is determined by the era and circumstances in which people are born and brought up. During the 1950s to 1970s, people had to slog to...

Zoomers have Telephobia?

The headmaster of one of the most famous boarding schools in England, called Rugby, has said that there is something seriously wrong with what are known as Generation Zoomers...

Why many of us parents are guilty of brainwashing our kids

Charlotte Cripps, The Independent Donald Trump’s youngest supporter? Elon Musk’s four-year-old X Æ A-12, apparently. The Tesla founder’s son, whose name is pronounced “ex-ash-ay-12” and who goes by “X”...