“You shall know a word by the company it keeps,” are the words of J.R.Firth, who is said to have coined the terms ‘collocation’ and ‘collocability’ in 1950s. Ever since linguists and language teachers ...

Recently, I moved to a new high school in Seoul, notorious for its education fever. I encountered English worksheets, workbooks and sundry exam papers on their desks issued by cram schools. Half of ...