Everyday English for Grown-ups

English is one of the richest, most colourful and most subtle languages in the world. To speak or write good English – plain, lucid, jargon-free English – to have mastery of the language, is to have style.

Here are some examples (well there’s one already):

The Romans, under the command of Julius Caesar, invaded in AD 43, and brought with them their alphabet, formed from those of the Semitic, Egyptian Phoenician and Greek civilizations. The Latin alphabet consisted of twenty-three letters – our contemporary alphabet without the j (Julius was Iulius, and so on), u (the v – easier to carve in stone – was used for that sound) and w (see later).