Regular readers know of my love affair with Field Notes. (See here and here, for instance.) Looks like developer/designer/illustrator Erik Schneider + 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
Today I bring you not one, not two, but three articles with at least a tenuous connection to the writing life: Barton + more
There’s much to disagree with in this interview with Wordnik founder and CEO Erin McKean—like when she says, “I truly believe that + more
Over at First Things, David Bentley Hart has written something of an homage to Amanda McKittrick Ros, author of such turgid prose as + more
The author Jonathan Franzen was recently asked what he thought about the “uptick” of grownups reading YA (Young Adult) fiction. He tried + more
Over at the Boston Globe, Britt Peterson gamely tries to put a positive spin on the quotative like. It’s not the + more
Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, January 28, 1817 I tremble for the ‘magnificence’, which you attribute to the new Childe + more