How well do you know your fonts? Me, I can tell the difference between serif and san-serif, but aside from a few fonts like Papyrus and...Continue reading
Here’s something fun for your Friday. I just found (via Reddit) a site where an AI invents words and their definitions every time you refresh the...Continue reading
I was working on making an infographic on words that derive from numbers when I found the following video. (I was planning to crib from it,...Continue reading
The following poem is called The Chaos. It was written in 1922 by Gerard Nolst Trenité. This poem is frequently shared as a joke that reinforced...Continue reading
If you read this blog then you probably know about serif and san-serif fonts, how to tell the difference. But did you know there are several...Continue reading
The Oxford or serial comma is one of the more divisive parts of the English language (even more so than the singular they), and it looks...Continue reading
As you may know, there’s a fairly common practice that when an official is elected or appointed to a new position, said official sends out a...Continue reading
English is a language that doesn’t just borrow words, it follows other languages down dark alleys, clubs them over the head, and rifles through their pockets...Continue reading
It’s 2018 and we live in an era where the Oxford English Dictionary adds words to its lexicon willy-nilly. If a word is used somewhere in...Continue reading
Here’s a tip about the English language that native speakers learn instinctively and ESL learners have to learn the hard way. Did you know there’s a...Continue reading
The English language grows by pursuing other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary. It is ridiculously complex and contradictory, and...Continue reading
Here’s a fun and useful video for anyone trying to read historical documents or trying to write historical fiction. As everyone who has heard the song...Continue reading
Lorem Ipsum is the name for a class of text generators that can create vast quantities of almost intelligible content. There is apparently an audio equivalent....Continue reading
In a nod to current events, Dictionary.com has chosen the word “complicit” as its word of the year: Defined as “choosing to be involved in an...Continue reading
A recently published academic paper has shown that the weakening of censorship inside publishers has lead to a dramatic increase in the use of swear words...Continue reading