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Read this article (link to www.entrepreneur.com) on how you can find out whether you use 'ums' and...

Did you know that the first word after the greeting in an email or letter always starts with a...

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you're a history lover, you'll like the BBC's news archive website "On This Day". It contains...

A Japanese soap manufacturing company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a box of...

In this very short YouTube video, Richard Wiseman (psychologist, author and magician) tells us...

The English word 'sensible' means 'vernünftig' in German, as in the sentence: 'I have to...

I know that a lot of people find meetings a waste of time. I often think about they can be made...

"Your" shows possession. Try replacing "your" with "my" in a sentence. If it works, then use...

Take a look at some of the world's most beautiful offices (link to www.inc.com). Do you have a...

Have you ever wondered how the British prepare their tea? Watch this YouTube video...

An optician was instructing a new employee on how to charge a customer. “As you are fitting her...

This time psychologist Richard Wiseman tells us how we can wake up feeling great by following a 90...

'Google' was added to the Oxford English Dictionary as a verb way back in June 2006. This means...

Messages written in CAPITALS are more difficult to read and make the reader think you are SHOUTING...

"Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by...

I wonder if this could be a hit in Europe. I'm talking about the first beer-flavoured jelly bean...

Employer to applicant: "I can pay you € 320 a week now and € 410 a week in six months." Applicant...

Psychologist Richard Wiseman says there's an easy way to see if someone is more creative or more...

The German word 'Sachbearbeiter' is rather tricky to translate. I'd probably use the word 'office...

In Britain people apply for jobs with a 'curriculum vitae' or 'CV'. In America people apply with a...

Here are more words with different meanings in American and British English: British              ...

This is a great article I found on wikiHow.com that can help us in creating passwords to remember....