English Expressions: Into the Psyche of the English World

Boye Lafayette De Mente’s book,”Cheater’s Guide to Speaking English like a Native”, is a good book if you intend to increase your fluency of the language through the mastery of common English idioms and expressions.

Why should we study these then? The native speaker uses proverbs, metaphors, similes and a host of colloquial expressions in everyday speech. These have evolved over time, some over centuries. Using them reveals the cultural values and attitudes of the English speaking people.

The Americans, the English, Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders do have special words only peculiar to themselves as they speak them in their respective countries. It is certainly good to know them and to be able to use them when occasions call for their contextual usage.

I would be blogging some of the more unique ones that have not become clichés or passé in my subsequent postings.Some may have but continue to be in current usage.