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Each year, the English Department at San Jose State University honors the memory of Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton,...
The adventures and mis-adventures of our crazy language
Each year, the English Department at San Jose State University honors the memory of Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton,...
1. "Bling-bling" - It's not really a word; it sounds more like something a three-year-old might say when she really...
Here's a story that I wish was an April Fool's Day joke! Warren St. John reports in the New York...
Plain English supporters around the world have voted "At the end of the day" as the most irritating phrase in the language.
It's a little ironic that the Internet, the ultimate achievement of the information age, which has caused old-fashioned printed Encyclopedias...
Every now and then, things I hear in TV news really make me cringe. I try to stay as grammatically...
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