AP Quiz Top Two Anathemas
On March 4 this year, National Grammar Day, the AP Stylebook editors tweeted a question for their readers: What grammar […]
On March 4 this year, National Grammar Day, the AP Stylebook editors tweeted a question for their readers: What grammar […]
According to T. S. Eliot, April was :the cruellest month.” For me, April is Shakespeare’s month, a time to reread […]
In English, the digraph ae functions chiefly as a suffix to denote the plural of Latin borrowings that retain a […]
This post was prompted by a headline in the Washington Post: US deports former Nazi guard whose wartime role was […]
Rhetoric is one of those academic words that has migrated into the popular vocabulary and is frequently used as if […]
Not since I read Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy have I accumulated so many words in my reading that are new […]
Penpointing for pinpointing In my part of the world, many speakers have a hard time hearing the difference between the […]
Every writer has had the experience of submitting a piece of writing in the certainty that it is free of […]
English vocabulary includes thousands of words that originated in languages other than Old English. Some of these linguistic immigrants never […]
Reader ApK has asked for a discussion of the words sarcastic, sardonic, and facetious— all examples of verbal irony. verbal […]
Once upon a time, I encountered the word epistemology and its forms only in academic writing. Lately, I’ve been seeing […]
A sentence in a biographical piece in the Washington Post about the gifted librettist Randy Rainbow got me thinking about […]