Laura PinnavaiaLaura Pinnavaia (PhD) is full professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Milan (Italy). Her research interests in lexicology and lexicography have produced over forty articles and three authored mono_x0002_graphs: The Italian orrowings in the OED: A Lexicographic, Linguistic and Cultural Analysis (2001); Introduzione alla Linguistica Inglese (2015); Food and Drink Idioms in English: "A Little Bit More Sugar and Lots of Spice" (2018). She is currently working on seventeenth-century travelogues and the history of writing instruction for mother tongue speakers of English. Read More Read Less