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: […]
Anaphora, Epistrophe, and Symploce
Three rhetorical terms that describe a type of repetition are anaphora, epistrophe, and symploce. Anaphora is the repetition of a […]
A Willing Suspension of Disbelief
The origin of this expression lies in literary criticism. The term represents a contract between reader and writer. In recent […]
Euerergetism, Paraprosdokian, and Organleptic
These three words have nothing to do with each other. They’re just interesting. Euerergetism The first time I encountered euerergetism […]
Another “Kryptonite” Issue: who vs whom
Many of the AP Stylebook users who responded to the Grammar Day Twitter question (AP Quiz Top Two Anathemas ) […]
The 7 Deadly Sins and Their Synonyms
Traditional views about religion and sin may be in decline, but the human behavior catalogued as the Seven Deadly Sins […]
Awkward and Untoward
Both these adjectives are in frequent use on the web: awkward: about 163,000,000 hits in a Google search untoward: about […]
Words and Expressions from Poker
Perhaps the quintessential American card game, poker gained its first popularity on the riverboats and in the saloons of the […]
Conjuring and Cancelling with Cancel Culture
Like the term political correctness, cancel culture has become an incantation to conjure with. conjure: To invoke by supernatural power, […]
