How many different dictionaries are there? I’m betting there are over a dozen. I know of Cambridge, Oxford, Collins, and Miriam Webster. How many do we need? Don’t they all have the same words? Over the last few weeks, I’ve discussed some of the year’s words from these companies. Oxford gives us brain rot. Cambridge…
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If my memory serves me correctly, the internet, as we know it, is just over 30 years old. While technically it dates back to 1983, the browser-based World Wide Web debuted in 1993. That means I’ve spent nearly half my life on the web. While many of us have a love-hate relationship living online, it’s…
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With the new year just a few weeks away, many will begin to issue their year-end and best-of-2023 lists. The company that brings us the Miriam Webster Dictionary has weighed in with their Word of the Year. In recent years, they’ve spotlighted keywords like feminism, gaslighting, pandemic, they, and vaccine. Many think that this year’s…
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The Merriam-Webster Dictionary recently issued a list of words most Americans struggle to pronounce. Many of these mispronounced words don’t sound like you spell them. But the thing most interesting to me, many of the top ten were food related. I’ve heard people say one of these mispronounced words incorrectly most of my life…
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As we wrap up the year everyone seems to be creating their best of or top list for 2019. Even the Mirriam Webster Dictionary people have come up with their Word of the Year. And it’s not a word you might expect…
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Like many people I’m familiar with a nook. But really, whats a cranny? Together we find nooks and crannies in English muffins. But, what exactly are nooks and crannies?
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The fact that the word grey and gray are both acceptable drives me crazy. For some reason I always default to grey when gray is preferred in the US. I don’t why we can’t all just agree. But my biggest question… Why the difference?
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