Today we’re going to try something different.
When I was searching for the verb fry in the Contemporary Corpus of American English (COCA), I came across a recipe for a dish called Dovi, from Zimbabwe. So I decided that I would introduce you to more culinary vocabulary…
In our last post we saw that you can bake chicken and potatoes, aside from all the sweet stuff like cookies, cakes etc.
Today we are going to see what we can ROAST. Curiously, both chicken and potatoes show up in the top 20 occurrences of ROAST followed by a noun, first word…
Now that the Holiday season is over, and we’re done with all the eating and drinking, let’s look at it from a different angle: the linguistic angle.
We’ re going to look at three culinary verbs and see how they are used: COOK, BOIL and BAKE. Let’s start with COOK.
Today we’re looking at verbal collocations with head. As usual, all information is retrieved from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA – https://corpus.byu.edu/coca/). The table below shows the 20 most frequent verbs that collocate with our search word…
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Here’s the second leg of my leg post. Sorry for taking so long…
Let’s look at leg preceded by an adjective. From the list below we are only going to deal with those adjectives that might be problematic – but even so they aren’t too…
This month we’re going to look at some verbal collocations with mouth and eye(s), but we’ll be focusing only on those that pose a slight translation problem.
The first one is Watch your mouth! This is usually said to someone who uses bad language, but is obviously not…
Let’s continue with some more verbal collocations. You will also see that some of them are part of larger expressions, sometimes idiomatic expressions. Foot/feet occur in quite a few; most of them are pretty easy to understand: This man who wouldn’t have been…
When you point a finger at someone… there are three fingers pointing at you! - Stella Tagnin
26/11/2015
This time we’re going to look at some verbal collocations (verb + noun) with body parts. We’re starting with hands and fingers.
You probably know quite a few of them, but there’s always something new. I hope the accompanying images will make their meanings clear. She…
