A pronoun for the ‘two of us’ i.e ‘wit’
Old English (c. 5th to 11th centuries) had a pronoun for ‘we-two’ or ‘I and another’. Here is a fascinating article that describes this now (sadly) extinct pronoun. https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20260408-the-extinct-english-words-for-just-the-two-of-us
Easter
Happy Easter! ¡Felices Pascuas! Geseënde Paasfees! Buona Pasqua! Feliz Páscoa! Joyeuses Pâques! Frohe Ostern! Καλό Πάσχα! Wesołego Alleluja!
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Christmas 2025
I wish you all a blessed Christmas and a joyful New Year.
End of year break
I shall be off-line from 24 December to 6 January, inclusively. Our last class/lesson will be on 23 December 2025 and we shall resume on 7 January 2025.
Learning languages keeps you young
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Exam results
Congratulations to Blas on passing Cambridge C1 Advanced. Well done!
The end of the 2024/2025 academic year
I would like to thank you all for your support over the last year and for all the hours of mutual learning. I wish you a restful summer holiday and I shall be looking forward to seeing you again in September.
Q & A
A question from JH: In Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff says (Chapter 7): ‘Well, I cried last night,’ he returned, ‘and I had more reason to cry than she.’ Shouldn’t it be ‘more reason to cry than her?’ Than may be thought of as a preposition. Hence it would be followed by an object pronoun. However, I […]
Easter 2025
I shall be off the grid from Maundy Thursday (17 April) until 22 April (inclusive). I wish you a very happy Easter.
