Conversation as One of the Fine Arts
With the 2022 wedding season in full swing, it seems fitting to consider what goes into being a good conversationalist.
Magazine: Garner the Grammarian
Estranged Siblings
Speakers of English must sometimes cope with sibling words bearing widely divergent meanings, such as ‘enormity’ and ‘enormousness.’
Are You a Vocabularian? (Part II)
As promised, this time we’re focusing on five-letter words that might appear in Wordle.
Are You a Vocabularian? (Part I)
The more words you know, the more readily you can understand anything you happen to be reading.
W Is for Webster, Worcester, Woe, and Wrath
Nasty business, lexicography.
All Ize on Oxford
The mere fact that something occurs, and then something else follows, doesn’t mean that the first caused the second.
The Storied Oxford English Dictionary
Scholars wouldn’t be surprised at the copious literature about lexicography, ‘the art or practice of writing dictionaries.’
Literary Sleuthing
We live in quite an era.
Defusing Your Participles
Should you say I appreciate your coming or I appreciate you coming? That’s the question.
The Supreme Court Denotes Race
On the Court, the Black/black issue is the culmination of a long stylistic evolution.