Yesterday, I got in a new book on William F. Buckley Jr.’s use of the English language: Buckley: The Right Word. Compiled by the editor of many of Buckley’s books Samuel S. Vaughan, it examines letters, articles and passages from his books strictly from a linguistic point of view. His use of unusual (but [...]
Over at theJapanesePage.com’s forums, Tony let’s us know the Middle English writer Chaucer is easy. (scroll down a few posts)
I gave him a chance to retract that statement - I mean people think reading Shakespeare or the 19th century revision of the King James Version of the bible is difficult - but he repeated [...]
Yumi bought a book by Supernanny Jo Frost called Supernanny by Jo Frost. Thumbing through it reminded me of a discussion in an English class I had at the university. The topic was about what gender should be used for the third-person singular pronoun when the gender of the people involved is unknown [...]
We’ve been slammed for the past few days. I blinked and here we are already halfway through this week.
Log on to www….
I heard this on the radio the other day and it got me thinking. Do we really log on to websites? In the olden days with dialup BBSes, you would “log [...]
Just a few common sayings that are oddly wrong - if you think about it.
Oddly Wrong: You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
Correct: You can’t eat your cake and have it too.
Many people say “You can’t have your cake and eat it too” but why not? I mean, you CAN have your [...]
Upon logging into this site today, I received a notification saying someone actually registered to this site! My subscription base has doubled in one fell swoop!
Quite a big day for this site. This means from now on, a single subscriber can no longer double the number of subscribers. It will take two [...]
We were watching Makoto’s Wiggles DVD (highly recommended BTW) and when mentioning Henry the Octopus’ friends they repeatedly said Octopi as the plural of Octopus. I hadn’t heard that before and since I happened to be reading from the Fowler’s Modern English Usage I decided to turn to the O section, then OC, then [...]
