Category Archives: Words in English

Engleza de octombrie/ Girl Friday

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Girl Friday = a female office worker who does different types of work.

Watching films is good English practice: His Girl Friday (1940).

Sometimes I am my own girl Friday in my company.

I talk to people, I have meetings and presentations, I write personalized syllabuses for communicating in a legal, business, financial, medical English environment and most of all, I keep people talking at my specialised English courses (and laughing…now and then).

Nevertheless, I do find time to enjoy a dark and gloomy afternoon as the one depicted below.

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Painting by Julius von Leypold (1806–74), Wanderer in the Storm, 1835.

Harbour flare

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Harbours are places for encounters
We go there often.
We play a game
Of looking at ships gliding
Through foreign scents and mists
and amiable far-aways…

Water is a place for
life and dreams.

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Painting: Harbour flare by John Atkinson Grimshawn.

Inspiration: Moby Dick by Herman Melville.

Harald Sohlberg

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Harald Sohlberg. I could write a poem for each and every one of his paintings.

A Moonlight with a Lighthouse, Coast of Tuscany ?exhibited 1789 Joseph Wright of Derby 1734-1797 Purchased 1949 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05882

A Moonlight with a Lighthouse, Coast of Tuscany.

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What is the light without a moon

And the moon without the light?

The light is what we crave

But moon is what we see.

Engleza de septembrie/ Whet

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Whet = to increase your desire for or interest in something.

“Feur had remained curiously unassimilated; she continued to whet the curiosity of lady Alison…” John Galsworthy, A Modern Comedy.

Autumn whets the illusion of permanence.

Nevertheless, the wind in the yellow air is playing a tune: You are no colonists of this world. You are just passing through… As boats dwindling into sunset glares…

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Picture by me off the Ionian sea.

Engleza de septembrie/ The ins and outs

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The ins and outs (of something) = all the details, especially the complicated or difficult ones.

Idioms

To have an in with somebody = to have influence with somebody.

An in to something = a way into something.

On this blog I present the ins and outs of my business, the English Shop.

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Engleza de august/ Shooting star

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Shooting star = a small meteor (= a piece of rock in outer space) that travels very fast and burns with a bright light as it enters the earth’s atmosphere.

August is the month of shooting stars and making lasting wishes in the light of their ephemeral falls.

When was the last time you saw a really big shooting star? I wouldn’t dare ask about your wish…

 

I usually organise shooting stars parties and I watch and wait for their glamorous waltz above the heat of the night…

Shooting star nightShooting Star By MaryDoodles on Deviant Art.

Stack sandal

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As it is still the empire of summer and sun, I come up today with another fashionable word:

Stack sandal –  a type of sandal with high heels and a platform under the toes.

The picture is from my small, small garden. In August I do have a garden of lilies.

August Lily

I bid you a wonderful evening in your garden of lilies!

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