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 ...
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 ...
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 ...