How to write the date

Dates can be written in various ways: 2017-08-29 29/08/2017 29th August, 2017 29th Aug. 2017 August 29th, 2017 I don’t like any of the above. I find them confusing. And we no longer need to write ‘st’, ‘rd’ or ‘th’ after the...

Are you a pizza expert?

How much do you know about pizza? Do the BBC quiz to find out. And here are some fun facts about this very popular foodstuff. Like … the world’s fastest pizza maker can make 14 pizza in 2 minutes and 35 seconds. Wow! (Oh, isn’t the plural of...

A tricky word

How would you translate the following German sentence? Wir müssen das heute nicht entscheiden. I’d like to suggest something like: We don’t have to decide today Watch out for “müssen nicht”. It doesn’t mean “must not”...