Demise of the -er Comparative
Perhaps, like me, you were taught in elementary school that most one-syllable adjectives, plus two-syllable adjectives that end in y, […]
Calculus Etymology
I did not take calculus in high school. (I barely made it through basic math.) All I know about calculus […]
Writing the Pandemic
Since the media’s first faltering coverage of the coronavirus called COVID-19, the disease has not only embedded itself in the […]
30 Ways to Say, “You’re Stupid”
I’ve been bingeing on the Shetland mysteries by Ann Cleeves and have finished them all. The novels are set in […]
Words to Describe the Way People Talk
If there is any one interest and practice shared by every human being on earth, it’s talking—usually to other people, […]
Pandemic Vocabulary
This post was prompted by a reader who poses the following question: What is the preferred way to write Covid-19 […]
Critical Race Theory
An academic term receiving a lot of attention these days is Critical Race Theory. When a previously specialized term makes […]
Important News for Free Email Subscribers
DailyWritingTips started in 2007. Right after that we launched a free subscription to our content. Three years ago or so […]
10 More Naming Words Ending in -nym
eponym The person for whom something is named: chauvinism, Caesarian Section, boycott. exonym A name for a people used by […]
4 Effects Named for Famous People
Among the meanings of the noun effect is this: Any of various distinct phenomena (originally in physical science, in later […]
Some Rules about Periods
The first rule a child learns about the period (Br. “full stop”) is that it ends a sentence. Where else […]
12 Words That End in -nym
Most of us are probably familiar with these -nym words: synonym a word that means the same as another word: […]