I almost always mistook 'sachet' as 'satchel.'

Yeah, looking at the two words' respective etymology, it's obvious that they are confusing.

I've been schlepping my English proficiency for all these long years.

"Time went by, as time does."

"Abscond" is a word that is hard to keep in mind.

"The bomb" is almost exactly the opposite of "a bomb."

There are so many idioms in American English.

There are forefathers, and there are foremothers.

The break between school classes is called "recess" in English, not "recreation."

Engish learning involves a lot of tedium.

It's "clear the table," not "clean the table," nor "make the table."

The English vocab is gargantuan.

Etymology shows that the word "canister" is not related to "can" at all.

The amount of words in English is mesmerizing.

The Oxford Advanced American Dictionary states that acupressure was originally from Japan, in its respective word entry.

But it was from China, and it's a part of the Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Japanese had learned it from China long time ago, supposedly.


The boon of acupressure is that anyone can be the masseur or masseuse, so that it can be done at home.

I often misheard "pears" as "pairs."

The vowel sound in "pear" is not the same as in "appear," "dear," "fear," "gear," "hear," and "sear." But it is the same as in "bear," "wear," and "year."

Sometimes it feels like that the verbosity, or sprawl, of English is out of control.

Just few examples. There's "for instance," there's "for example," and there's "e.g." In addition, there's "exemplary," as well as "exemplifiable."

Today, I've found out that apart from "exaggerate," there exists "overexaggerate." And second-graders are constantly uttering the latter.

It's "bunk bed," not "bunker bed."

Taken at face value, the word "grandfather" looks grander than "forefather", doesn't it?

In reality, it's the opposite way.

Nowadays, normally I learn several batches of English words per week.

That would actually take a bunch of my hours.

The word "plodding" has got some negative connotations with it.

But it should carry mostly positive ones.

Oh, "dove" just means "pigeon."

I like the sound of the word "acquiescing."