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Originally conceived in Victorian-era London, back slang began as a clandestine way for costermongerers (street merchants who sold produce) to talk to each other about things they wanted to keep secret.
Squinting modifiers are misplaced words or phrases that are placed in a sentence so that they could refer to one or two parts of a sentence.
Here are some words that only sound bad — they’re actually completely innocent.
Ideas are nouns — and they’re my favorite types of nouns.
What are some examples of zombie nouns, and are they lurking in your basement, waiting to eat your kids?
We have some English words that seem like fossils, yet, like those of us born in the last century, they keep a death grip on life. These words are called “fossil words.”
Columnist Curtis Honeycutt welcomed a new baby to his family last week. Ever since, he's been thinking about baby-related language rules.
Curtis Honeycutt is a syndicated humor columnist. He is the author of Good Grammar is the Life of the Party: Tips for a Wildly Successful Life. Find more at curtishoneycutt.com.
Whether you have a physical menu or a smartphone selection, you’re bound to find some French phrases that make your food sound fancier. In truth, it’s a way for a restaurant to charge an extra five bucks for a dish.
Ambiguous news headlines make me snort-laugh, but what would you expect from a former English major?
