Lexicoblog

As a lexicographer and corpus linguist, I'm firmly a descriptivist . That is, I describe language as it's used (based largely on cor...

Answer keys are a vital part of ELT materials, relied on by teachers and learners alike, but probably rarely given a huge amount of thought....

Recently, I was doing some corpus digging to see how the future perfect tense ( will have done ) is actually used. It’s one of those tense...

As we head into November and the days get shorter, I’ve been looking back on what’s been an up-and-down summer, and not just in terms of the...

After 25 years of working in dictionaries, I recently I attended my first ever lexicography conference, the Euralex Conference held in Cavt...