This may be the dumbest thing in the history of dumb things. It’s an app that promises to help you + more
This may be the dumbest thing in the history of dumb things. It’s an app that promises to help you + more
This is really more of a usage note than a grammar issue, but I was too lazy to come up with + more
Suffering from tuberculosis, the Reverend John Sterling had written to his friend Thomas Carlyle that he had only a few + more
“If you want to succeed in the business world, don’t bother utilizing your bandwidth to drill down on core competencies. + more
postprandial (adjective) Occurring after a meal. Courtney’s steep decline in productivity as the afternoon wore on was initially thought to be + more
The poet, novelist, and essayist Philip Larkin, in an album review for The Daily Telegraph in 1965: I’m afraid I poached Bob + more
“Can metaphors be designed?” asks Michael Erard. They can—and they are: In the 1960s, the US philosopher Donald Schön spent some + more
Regular readers know of my love affair with Field Notes. (See here and here, for instance.) Looks like developer/designer/illustrator Erik Schneider + more
The Reverend Sydney Smith to his son-in-law, Dr. Henry Holland, June 8, 1835—180 years ago today: I am suffering from + more
execration (noun) The act of cursing or denouncing. eructation (noun) A violent belching out or emitting. Though Morgan’s execrations toward Aaron were certainly expected + more
Back in 2012, I alerted readers to the Australian slang word boofy. At the time, I wondered whether a term that seemed + more
C. S. Lewis, from his introduction to Athanasius’s On the Incarnation: “Every age has its own outlook. It is specially + more
It seems a lot of people are confused about the difference between singular and plural possessives—and wonder where the heck the apostrophe + more
OFF-uhn? Or OFF-tuhn? Here’s Paul Brians: People striving for sophistication often pronounce the T in this word, but true sophisticates + more
This is a delightful trip down the unlikeliest of rabbit holes: the contranymic nature of the word “no.” Occasionally, however, a + more