In English, verbs can express an action in one of two voices. The active voice focuses on the agent: "John measured the temperature." (Here, the agent — John — is the grammatical subject of ...
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Since the requisite number of requests for another column on commonly misused words was achieved, I am continuing my attempt ...
Apparently, it is unfashionable to specify ‘he’ or ‘she.’ ...
For eight hours a day, five days a week, every week until the heat death of the universe or the day human beings stop ...
When I researched this topic, I found that the researchers were naming pairs of words that might be called misspellings.
A corpus study on Norse and French loan verbs entering Middle English compares the proportions of their finite and non-finite usage to gauge the impact of etymology and temporal distance to direct ...
‘Finger bowl’ is different from ‘wash-hand basin.’ The former is the plastic moved around for washing of hands, while the ...
The Spanish word with the most derivative meanings is apparently 'cojones', slang for testicles. Here are 22 hilarious ...
October: Monster by Dzifa Benson “One language is never enough”, Dzifa Benson writes in the first section of Monster, her ...