The misuse of certain phrases in English is something that really gets my goat. Some…
Category: Words
Pareidolia (/pærɪˈdoʊliə/ parr-i-DOH-lee-ə) is a psychological phenomenon in which the mind responds to a stimulus,…
There are several options for most collective nouns. For example a group of cats can…
A neologism is a relatively recent or isolated term, word, or phrase that may be in…
Do you hate going forward? Do you shudder when a colleague wants to reach out?…
My others are just-mowed grass sheets after having dried in the sun freshly-brewed or ground…
This is a discussion my students and I have fairly often. Who names things? And…
One of my students asked me recently about my favourite words in the English language.…
In Swedish, the word recept means both prescription (medicine) and recipe (cooking). This means that the word…