In an age when ‘drip’ is a compliment and ‘extra’ is not, it is a very fine line between speaking properly and coming across ...

Henry W Fowler, author of Modern English Usage (1926), and Wilson Follett, author of Modern American Usage (1966), both included “barbarisms” as headwords in their guides. Fowler defined them as ...

But with more than half a million entries in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) alone as a starting point, it’s fair to say English is on the heftier side. Not all those hundreds of thousands of ...

But more interesting, at least to word-collectors like me, is that their names all come from Native American languages.  They ...

We spend a lot of time fighting about words. Is a tomato a vegetable or a fruit? A lot of time has been spent—not to say wasted—arguing this point. We think of fruit as being sweet, and a tomato is ...

Part I When I finished my last article, “Metaphors, Meadows, MUNCH, and Models of the Large Language Kind,” I stated my ...

Recognized as a breed by the American Kennel Club in 2021, the Biewer terrier (pronounced like "beaver") is known for its fun ...

Speaking too soon is one thing, but then there’s another thing. There are always two things, right? That’s what I’m having trouble figuring out.

The Campbell Soup Company is based in Camden, and they've been around for many generations. Who didn't grow up having ...

The problem may come into play if you are someone who does not eat meat. The choices are much less plentiful. And if you are ...

92.7 WOBM AND GATEWAY TOYOTA OF TOMS RIVER HONOR MEGAN MILLER OF NEW EGYPT HIGH SCHOOL AS THE STUDENT OF THE WEEK. RANKED 2ND ...

The Campbell Soup Company is based in Camden, and they've been around for many generations. Who didn't grow up having Campbell Soup? Chicken Noodle, Tomato, Cream of Mushroom - they were the varieties ...