Reflexive conversation. People ask and answer a lot of questions out of habit. I call this...
Bunions & squished-up toes. I have bunions on both feet. These cause my toes to get squished...
In the South, the extraneous “at”. I love regional variations in language. Being from Virginia, I’m...
I noticed them before I knew what they were called – “unpaired words”: words without opposites. In...
From an “About the Writer of this Blog” page: Just in case you missed it, “much of [the blog]...
English trifle. Let’s consider the word trifle. As a noun it can be either “an English dessert made...
Why do the words flammable and inflammablemean the same thing? The dictionary at reference...
An onomatopoeia is a word “which imitates the natural sounds of a thing. It creates a sound effect...