One of the advantages of languages that are somewhat related is that they usually have a similar vocabulary. But what about their false friends?
50+ Spanish-English false friends/cognates
Why counting sheep to sleep?
Your parents have probably told you to count sheep if you couldn’t sleep, but have you asked yourself why?
The origin of “spam”
Have you ever wondered why we call all that weird emails which bother us so much “spam”? Well, oddly enough seems like we have the Monty Python to thank for.