Is ‘Home Office’ Denglish?

Is ‘Home Office’ Denglish?

Apr 17, 2020 | Language

For obvious reasons, I’ve been thinking about the term ‘Home Office’ recently. Everyone is working in Home Office. But did you know that, like the words ‘handy’ and ‘beamer’, these aren’t Leihwörter from English? Home...
Buzzword Bingo and Non-Native English Speakers

Buzzword Bingo and Non-Native English Speakers

Apr 3, 2020 | Language, Language

‘Let me nutshell that for you’, I read this morning. AAARRRRGHHHHHHHH For non-native English speakers who don’t know the expression, to ‘put it in a nutshell’ means to explain something in a concise way – to make it so small that it...