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Usage Determines Meaning for the Middle-Aged

Usage Determines Meaning, and I'm going to illustrate it by putting myself...

When my three-year-old son asks while we sit in a large crowd, "Why are the...

I just read a fascinating book recommended to me by Alan Jacobs, an English...

Usage, ah, Usage... What a fickle goddess! No hobgoblin of little minds are...

Sidney Landau, lexicographer, has a firm handle on one of my favorite...

I really enjoyed this essay on that poor, abused English word "literally." If...

I critiqued Steven Pinker several times in Biblical Worldview: Creation, Fall,...

Ammon Shea’s Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation is a collection...