Archive for Usage
tea
I like tea.
wickets and outs
Language changes, and sometimes doesn't.
Does both mean two?
Most uniquest
The old side-eye
Only peripherally about words, or for that matter stuff.
because
Half the people on my Facebook friends list have linked to an article by Megan Garber in the Atlantic titled “English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet,” about the growing...
Resource for English questions
Jim recently pointed me to the English Language and Usage Stack Exchange site. For those unfamiliar with Stack Exchange, it's a collection of websites on various topics that are designed...
slow clap
The thing I find fascinating about the phrase “slow clap” is that it's used to refer to two different things that are near-opposites in meaning. On the one hand, there's...
Literally
Several years ago, I took a sideswipe at “literally” in an entry about something else. John S and Shmuel both gently pointed out that I was wrong to be fussy...