Top 10 Books on the English Language Need to buy a book about the English language but don’t know which one to buy or which review to trust? This is my list of the top ten books on the English language. I have most of them on my book shelf » Read More
To proofread or not to proofread? Surely that’s a stupid question? “Aha!” I hear you say, “but at English Trackers proofreading is your livelihood; of course you believe in proofreading.” True. But humour me on this one. Say you’ve just written a book. You’ve got something to say » Read More
We talk to French journalist and author Anne Garrigue about the rather entrepreneurial way she launched her latest non-fiction book. As contributors to the project – we translated it from French into English and did all the proofreading work – we’ve taken great pleasure in stepping into the » Read More
We welcome guest blogs, particularly from bloggers who have their own blog or who write for their company blog. We need to be sent a pitch with an outline of the post before we accept a guest post. We feel flattered if you’ve actually read some of » Read More
When my interpreting partner and I flew to another city recently to interpret, I asked him to lend me a novel for the trip. Once on the plane he pulled out “On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction” by William Zinsser. It was not the choice » Read More
I believe that our brains are so clever that when we want to express something our word retrieval system pulls out the ‘right’ word from our memory banks. Only, sometimes that word is in the wrong language, meaning not the language in which we are conversing. I don’t » Read More