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 game has been a major hit since it went public in 2021. Nicholas T Ansell/Press Association via AP Images Tuesday's Wordle answer is "FULLY." According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary it means, ...
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has criticized a tour company for allegedly misinforming fans about her books. Rowling, who lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was inspired by the city to write the ...