People have long been fascinated with the idea of time travel and often speculate on the marvelous...
Author - Orin Hargraves
Feeling used
A new friend of mine is an equine-assisted therapist. After I revealed to him my almost-as-obscure...
Mr. and Ms. Right
Young people today who find their lives incomplete have probably not had the experience of editing...
A preposition problem
To begin, and so that you won’t feel you have yet another language problem on your plate, the...
Who signed off on my burrito?
There comes a time in the life of many words when it appears that they have been given more work...
Miscreant word behavior
If you type “dictionary australia” into the Google News search box it will deliver up a cartload of...
Spin to win
Early this year I wrote about the special meanings that US politicians may wish to convey when they...
Pasta is Life
Food terms borrowed from other languages tend to arrive intact, or undergo as little change as...
Tech talk
I sat down with a programmer the other day who was showing me how to use a new text annotation tool...
Remembrance of past participle things
Stan Carey’s recent post about irregular verbs reminded me of a topic that occurs to me from time...