Language articles
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Have your cake and eat it too, or eat your cake and have it too?
If you watched the Netflix series about the Unabomber, Theodore J. Kaczynski, you will know he took umbrage…
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Crinkly
The power of words. And words that force us to smile. Think photographers: Cheese! Pepsi! Crinkly! I stumbled…
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Sometimes a Joy
Writing flash fiction is a zap moment, a richness dark and light and sweet and bitter, and squirted…
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Fay and Fey
Here’s a complex case of slipshod extension. In British English one of the words in the title when…
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Posh
In 1930 The Times Literary Supplement received a letter in which the writer explained that the origin of the word…
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Sesquipedality
Sesquipedality Or, foot-and-a-half long words. In writing, the use of big words can be tremendous fun for the…
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Eggcorns and Mondegreens
Eggcorns and Mondegreens Eggcorns derive from confused homophones in set phrases. Homophones are words that sound similar or…
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Knobbly Monsters
From his stone cottage on the island of Guernsey, the eminent British language scholar H.W. Fowler wrote an…
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