Double-Parking, Straddle, and To Seek Out
I find language fodder everywhere. This post was prompted by a Facebook video clip. Situation A woman is loading her […]
I find language fodder everywhere. This post was prompted by a Facebook video clip. Situation A woman is loading her […]
The past few weeks have seen a surge of fevered rhetoric in the media. Here are a few examples: Senator […]
Here are five usages that caught my attention recently. aye and yea Both aye [pronounced “I”] and yea [pronounced “yay”] […]
A reader has questions about the following type of sentence: “the education chief’s sudden resignation left him scrambling to find a replacement”. […]
A reader asks, Could you comment on Halloween words such as jack-o’-lantern vs jack o’ lantern and Trick-or-treat vs Trick […]
A reader asks about the placement of the phrase, “of course”: Please discuss which of the following is correct: “Of […]
An often-noted difference between English and the Romance languages is that in English, adjectives precede the noun. English-speakers say “the […]
Before my use of Facebook, I imagined that, apart from insignificant personal differences, most people I know agreed on matters […]
It’s a harsh indictment of human nature that we have so many words for deception. (I’m assuming that English is […]
The words good and well have been in English since its earliest incarnation. When Beowulf finds the ancient sword in […]
The useful adjective hindmost may be shifting into the territory of the unfamiliar, where words become vulnerable to a change […]
Regard the use of the word critique in the following examples: My boyfriend critiques the way I make the bed […]