When this movie ended, everyone in the audience just sat there for a few minutes, trying to pull ourselves back together. As we filed out, still blubbering, the theatre manager said
Pop? Soda? Coke? Soft drink? Wash or warsh? Creek or crick? Carmel or cara-mel? Here’s a quiz about regional differences in speech and language. See if the quiz can predict where
How much do we love that phrase? I hadn’t heard it before, but it perfectly describes the nails-on-blackboard annoyance of randomly misplaced apostrophes. Or apostrophe’s, as our eponymous grocer would
Another gem from the blotter…Just another day on the island. Submitted without comment…..
A lot of you knew what yesterday’s list of phrases had in common–though not necessarily coined by Shakespeare, all of those phrases can be found in the Bard’s work. Take
 Pop Quiz: What do these phrases have in common? Post your speculation here and I’ll post the answer tomorrow. A dish fit for the gods A foregone conclusion A sorry
Apostrophe abuse is one of the most common and insidious assaults on the written word. I’m sorry to say that one of my favorite computer programs, Dragon Naturally Speaking, gets it wrong
You never know when you’re going to need this–How to say “Cheers” in any number of languages. It’s a long story–like, 110,000 words long at this point–but I needed to
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