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1. Why Tired People Talk About Being 'Out of Spoons.' Why Nouns Are More Complicated Than You May Think.

   Publicerades: 2022-03-24
2. Barracking, Sheilas and Shouts: How the Irish Influenced Australian English

   Publicerades: 2022-03-17
3. The Oxford Comma. And Should You Start a Sentence with 'And'?

   Publicerades: 2022-03-10
4. Is 'Materiel' Just a Fancy Pronunciation of 'Material'? Are Binomials the Same Across Languages?

   Publicerades: 2022-03-03
5. Why Do We Cringe at 'Pepper and Salt'? Why 'Square' Is Uncool. Quickquish.

   Publicerades: 2022-02-24
6. What's Square About a Square Meal? How to Use Parentheses, Brackets, and Braces. Guck.

   Publicerades: 2022-02-17
7. Are People Using 'Commiserate' Wrong? The Origin of (the Word) 'Influenza.' Hersband.

   Publicerades: 2022-02-10
8. Do You Call In, Out, or Off Sick? How Kids Learn Language. Hexaboobiated.

   Publicerades: 2022-02-04
9. Tips for Learning a New Language: The Fluent Show

   Publicerades: 2022-01-27
10. Why 'Tiny' Sounds Smaller Than 'Huge.' Nixing the Horrid 'Of.' Kokopelli.

    Publicerades: 2022-01-20
11. 'Strollout,' 'Insurrection,' 'Yassify,' and Other Words of the Year for 2021

    Publicerades: 2022-01-13
12. Cardsharp. The Old-New Singular 'They.' Grignug.

    Publicerades: 2022-01-06
13. Questions, Questions, So Many Questions!

    Publicerades: 2021-12-30
14. Is "Milk and Cookies" One Thing or Two? A New Language Term: The Santaback. Shoedabakers.

    Publicerades: 2021-12-24
15. How Lori Rader-Day Wrote a Historical Novel About War Evacuees in Agatha Christie's Vacation Home

    Publicerades: 2021-12-16
16. Pretending to Be British. How to Use Ellipses. Spiders.

    Publicerades: 2021-12-09
17. Shibboleth. Greeting Card Grammar. Bunkaree.

    Publicerades: 2021-12-03
18. How to Use a Semicolon, Amirite? Partu.

    Publicerades: 2021-11-25
19. Penultimate. Veni, Vidi, Vici. Smidge.

    Publicerades: 2021-11-18
20. New Words from WWII. How Places Like Featherstonehaugh Get Their Names. Uncoming.

    Publicerades: 2021-11-11