2009 roundup

Here's a roundup of the blog from the past year.

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3. 駆り集め◆家畜の

According to Google, we've had 1,361 visitors since we started this blog in April.

We've posted to the blog 200 times in 2009. This is the 201st post.

Here are the posts that Google says are the most popular.

In number 3, I was talking about how "both of ok" is wrong:

http://upgradeenglish.blogspot.com/2009/04/both-of-ok-is-still-not-ok.html

The second-most-popular post was the beginning of my series about how to use "so":

http://upgradeenglish.blogspot.com/2009/07/so.html

Our most popular post is one Johnny wrote about the difference between "describe" and "explain":

http://upgradeenglish.blogspot.com/2009/04/describe-explain.html

One of the last things I did this year was devour chocolate cake in Ueno.

• 食い荒す (くいあらす) (v5s,vt) (1) to devour; to wolf down; (2) to eat some of everything; (3) to work at various things;

I hope that your new year holiday is as sweet as this cake was. We're looking forward to sweetening your English in 2010.