The infographic below plainly explains 15 of the common goofs  you happen to make when you write. Scroll down the infographic (be patient, it's quite long) and check if you need to correct some of them.

     LEPRECHAUNS

The name "leprechaun" may have various origins : from the Irish Gaelic word "leipreachan", it means "a kind of aqueous sprite". It also could be from "leath bhrogan", which means "shoemaker. It's the Irish term for a supernatural race in Irish mythology and Scottish mythology -comparable to fairies or elves.

Some folk traditions hold that leprechauns are descendants of the Tuatha de Danann. According to the Book of Invasions, when the Milesians came to Ireland they conquered the Tuatha de Danann and forced them to live underground (this connects them to the aes-sidh.

FAIRIES & other Irish MYTHS

and LEGENDS :

Click the picture of the fairy :

Elementary - A1/A2

Click this dancing leprechaun

to practise the prepositions of place

The video displays places and events we currently consider typically British : hence a series of corresponding sounds, such as tea pouring from a tea pot  :o)

THE IDEA OF PROGRESS

The Daily Telegraph TECH news reporter Miranda Prynne tells us about the top emerging technologies : a top ten list has been composed by the WEF (World Economic Forum) : each innovating technology was selected for its actual "positive impact on the world".

Click the Telegraph logo and read the article

(26 Feb 2014)

Here's the full list of the top 10 emerging technologies :

 Brain-computer interfaces

Mining metals from desalination brine

Nanostructured carbon composites 

Grid-scale electricity storage

Body-adapted wearable electronics 

Nanowire lithium-ion batterie:

Screenless display

Human microbiome therapeutics

RNA-based therapeutics

Quantified self (predictive analytics) 

Would you reorder the ten technologies differently ?

Which one would be your #1 ? Which one would be your #10 ? Why ?

Explain your answers.

Have you ever heard of the "L.U.S.A." ? :o)

Have a glance at this map :

it's a map of the Literary United States of America !

The map was created by Geoff SAWERS and Bridget Hannigan, and dealt with by Simon GARFIELD "Mapping America Writers", an article from  The Economist 's Intelligent Life website (November 2012).

Nowadays word clouds allow us to create any kind of picture-shaped meaningful groups of words. Computers help us do them, but... literary maps aren't recent !

Geoff Sawers and Bridget Hannigan also created literary maps of....

Ireland :

the United Kingdom :

The literary map of Wales

was created by Geoff Sawers and Gwyn Tudur Davies

Mind that the authors' names are not randomly located on the map : as Simon GARFIELD explains in his article, as for the U.S.A., "The project exposed literary trends : a tight concentration of old-school stars in the east, and of younger, more experimental writers spreading, pioneer-style, westwards."