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Newspapers owners and editors recognized the usefulness of the telegraph soon after the technology became available to them. Although the f...

The other day I saw a glitch in book review which reminded me of a recent post on the diminishing role of editors newsrooms and publishing ...

Before he wrote his Dictionary of Modern English Usage , Henry Fowler and his brother Francis wrote a little language guide called The King’...

Erin McKean took on verbification in last Sunday's Boston Globe.[1] We friend and unfriend, we Google, we TiVo, we Photoshop, we party!...

It's a term of law and governance from the Nordic, Germanic races. The Early English knew it as a council of elders, a court with its j...

Girl: Aaron! Hi! Guy: Hey! Are you going to the thing? Girl: Yeah, the thing! (guy starts walking away) Girl: Wait, Aaro...

Bin more 'n a hunred year ago this guy with the uppity name — Maximilian Schele de Vere — put out this book — Americanisms: the English ...

Many, many sources call the Haiti earthquake apolocalypic and many, many have more recently dubbed our recent heavy snow a snowpoccalypse...

I was looking at the preview squibs for today's games when my eye caught this quote: "This is our bed. We're going to lay in it...

A few weeks ago I did a post on clichés & so perked up a bit on seeing a piece by Ron Rosenbaum in Slate telling us The Catchphrase of ...

I mentioned that good will overtook me while in church Christmas eve, but — sad to say — the words themselves more than the feeling. I tho...