I remember working on a copy desk once long ago and discussing with someone whether a word was actually a word. "It's not in the dictionary," she said. It's true…
Add to the list of things I didn't know: Monday can be a racial code white people use for black people. Interesting. So once I started looking around at other racial…
So apparently there's some concern about Obama's new slogan: “Forward.” (Specifically, the period at the end there is vexing.) “Even for some in the president's orbit, the added punctuation slams…
I was shocked to discover recently that the word pub is short for public house. How did I not know this? I was watching the delightful “Downton Abbey” when Lord Grantham…