#speaking

Saturday 28th August MANCHESTER CITY V ARSENAL RESULT 5-0 Referee: Martin Atkinson. Assistants: Lee Betts, Richard West. Fourth official: Andy Madley. VAR: Darren England. Assistant VAR: Peter Kirkup. The challenge by Xhaka of Arsenal left referee Atkinson with no choice other than to dismiss the

First, knife-sharpening stores. Huh. Didn’t know those were still a thing. Mom got me a knife sharpener from Williams Sonoma last year and it fits perfectly in the drawer next to the knives. As a result, a STORE for sharpening your knives seems wildly, entirely inconvenient. And yet Cutters Edge in

Having grown up in Australia, I sometimes take our weird and wonderful lingo for granted. Sure, every culture develops its own unique slang; I thought I had learned Spanish until I turned up in Spain to discover that people have a ‘language within a language,’ countless funny and often rude idioms

I didn't speak for three months in 2008. I was 19 years old, and I had just finished what I thought would be a "gap year" (it turned out to be four). I spent the summer after high school working two full-time jobs and sleeping never to save up for a year of solo traveling along the West Coast of