Know Your English - March 2006

March 2006

• What is the meaning of `cook the books'? (20060327)
• Which is correct? `How are the team?' or `How is the team?' (20060327)
• What is the meaning of `demonology'? (20060327)
• Which is correct? `Once for all' or `once and for all'? (20060327)
• What is the meaning of `join the majority'? (20060327)
• What is the difference between a `medical shop' and a `chemist'? (20060327)
• How is the word `dilettante' pronounced? (20060320)
• What is the meaning of `wherewithal'? (20060320)
• Why is South America called `Latin America'? (20060320)
• What is the meaning and origin of `rule of thumb'? (20060320)
• What is the meaning of `nous'? (20060320)
• What is the difference between `afflict' and `inflict'? (20060320)
• What is the difference between `dispatch' and `despatch'? (20060320)
• Which is correct "My house is opposite to the railway station" or "My house is opposite the railway station"? (20060313)
• What is the meaning of `dies non'? (20060313)
• Cricket commentators talk about `the rub of the green... ' What does it mean? (20060313)
• What is the difference between `ample' and `enough'? (20060313)
• What is the meaning of `mouse journalism'? (20060313)
• Know Your English (20060306)