You know there are differences between British and American English.

But how good are you?

Take MacMillan Dictionary’s two quizzes to test your understanding of some of the many differences in vocabulary between both Englishes.

Good luck!

And you’ve only got 3 minutes to spare?

Listen to one of these TED Talks.

Some of my favourites:

• Try something new for 30 days – Matt Cutts
• 8 secrets of success – Richard St. John
• How to tie your shoes – Terry Moore
• A story of mixed emoticons – Rives
• How to start a movement – Derek Sivers
• Got a meeting? Take a walk – Nilofer Merchant
• Remember to say thank you – Laura Trice

Do you have a favourite?

Do you want to make the most of your travels?

Travel writer and TED Course instructor Pico Iyer suggests that we ask ourselves three questions:

1. “What moved me most over the course of my trip?”
2. “What surprised me most on my trip?”
3. “How might my trip move me to think or live my life a little differently?”

According to Iyer, “It’s only when you get back home that you can really begin to understand a trip and implement the changes it may have set into motion inside you”.

You’d like some more details?

Read this article on ideas.ted.com.

I’d love to know what you think.

We have many words with silent letters.

This means that we don’t pronounce them.

Here are some silent letters and a few examples:

• The letter ‘b’ that follows ‘m’ at the end of words (like bomb, comb, doubt and thumb).
• The letter ‘c’ when it is placed after an ‘s’ (‘sc’) (like descend, disciple, fascinate and scene).
• The letter  ‘k’ when it appears at the beginning of a word followed by ‘n’ (‘kn’) (like knee, knot and know).
• The letter ‘p’ at the beginning of a word followed by ‘s’ (like psychology, psychiatrist and psychotherapy).
• The letter ‘h’ when it appears after some consonants (‘gh’, ‘wh’, ‘rh’) (like ghost, what, when, where and rhino).

Now test yourself.

Say all these words out loud and see if you are keeping those letters silent. 

You could stay in a single luxury suite for two. In an airplane. At Teuge International airport in The Netherlands.

The facilities look amazing:

• Luxury breakfast
• Jacuzzi
• Infrared sauna
• Mini bar
• Three Flatscreen televisions
• Two Blu-ray DVD players
• Collection of DVDs
• Coffee and tea maker
• Free wireless internet

And you can even book a sightseeing flight or a flight lesson if you’d like to do something memorable.

Quite creative, don’t you think?