Joe’s Vocab 📒

Do I Write Its or It’s?
Josef Essberger
Actually, it’s very easy. It’s is always short for “it is” or “it has”. It is snowing. It’s snowing. It has finished. It’s finished. It has got 6 wheels. It’s got 6 wheels. Its means “belonging to it” and is a possessive pronoun like “his”. Turn the box on its side, Did you see its […]

100 Commonest English Words
Josef Essberger
Based on evidence from the billion-word Oxford English Corpus, Oxford have identified the hundred commonest English words found in writing globally: 1. the 2. be 3. to 4. of 5. and 6. a 7. in

Bimonthly
Josef Essberger
Here’s an economical word 😉 It means two mutually-exclusive thing at once: 1. twice a month 2. once every two months In fact, the meaning of “bimonthly” (and similar words like “biweekly” and “biyearly”) is ambiguous. The best way to be unambiguous is to use alternative expressions such as “twice a month” or “every two […]