For those who are still communicating with words rather than emojis or memes, this Mental Floss article borrows from Lifehacker and provides some tips regarding the use of the subjective ‘who’ or the objective ‘whom’ in sentences. The article starts out by observing that the words are not interchangeable: In casual messages with friends or …
It’s time for the Australian National Dictionary Center to release their ‘Word Of The Year’ for 2018. This usually involves trawling the backwaters of social media to locate a phrase no one’s ever heard of. No doubt you hear last year’s winner ‘Kwaussie’ – ‘kiwi(New Zealander)-aussie’ in general usage on a daily basis. 2018’s winner …
William Goldman, author both the book and movie versions of The Princess Bride has died. You may also remember him from such other movie screenplays as Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid and All The President’s Men, among others. I want to say his death is ‘inconcievable,’ but perhaps that word doesn’t mean what I …
This Mental Floss article links to an article on Slate about how to pluralise surnames, and then refers to some other posts that deal with how to add apostrophes in order to indicate possessive case for surnames. Plural and possessive, they’ve got that covered too. Just in time for the end of year and Christmas …
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