Wordlady

In my post on the etymology of the word "index" , I mentioned that the alphabet had been called a "Christ cross row" bec...

Do not use "enervate" when what you mean is "energize". You could unwittingly insult someone if you get this wrong, for ...

  As I promised in my post about the plural of "index", here is the story of the word "index". There were a lot of ...

Further to my post on the spelling of enrol(l) , the results of my highly scientific facebook poll are now in, and "enroll" has ta...

Just to make people's lives miserable, I suspect, usage pundits like to seize hold of common everyday words and make up "rules...

Children are back in the schoolyards. Do they still play hopscotch, or has some Wii version taken over? You might think that there's som...

It's the time of year when people are enrolling in all sorts of activities (I recommend taking up ballet classes if you haven't done...