Grammarphobia
On fawning and fawns
‘All Sects, all Ages smack of this vice’
‘Allude’ and its playful history
A pub, yclept Ye Olde Watering Hole
Are you getting antsy?
The short and the long
Why ‘learn by heart,’ not ‘by brain’?
A tidy history of ‘spick and span’
Liwans, porticos, and palaces
A ‘bad boy’ can be a good thing
And now, let us digress
When ‘jealousy’ met ‘envy’
Why not ‘ceiling’ of the mouth?
Tales of the drawing room
On the banks of the Ohio
Some ‘after’ thoughts
Unpacking ‘emotional baggage’
Donjons, dungeons, and dragons
Let us repair to the boudoir
Channeling the talking heads of yore
The death of a buddy in Vietnam
On and off the cuff
On criticizing and critiquing
Why are clams happy?
One of the best there is
Clawing back in the age of DOGE
On Passover and Easter
Sex, gender, and sociology
Befooled, besotted … beclowned?
A horse of a different choler
A ‘heart-wrenching’ sorrow
The ambiguity of ‘disambiguity’
Is coconut milk really milk?
‘Preventive’ or ‘preventative’?
Calling ‘in,’ ‘out,’ or ‘off’ sick?
Cheersing at the pub
A singular dynamic
No buts about it
You can’t call me Al