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Next Tuesday, the day before the start of Lent, is what the French call Mardi gras ("Fat Tuesday"), better known in English as Pan...

A while ago I ran a survey asking people how they pronounced "congratulate/congratulations". With many medal-winners deserving to ...

The Olympics are now in full swing, and all this pushed-to-the-limit physical activity brings with it the risk of injury, such as the one th...

The Olympics are upon us, and as usual there will be much handwringing and gnashing of teeth over the use of "medal" as an int...

An avid Wordlady reader has asked me to do something to stop the overuse of the words "icon" and "iconic". (For the hist...

Would you like to improve your professional or industry association meetings with a little light relief from the information-heavy and se...

Thank you to those who nominated Wordlady  for Macmillan Dictionaries Love English "Best Blog" award. Now it's time to vote! P...