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Photo by Piotr Miazga on Unsplash An avid Wordlady reader has inquired about the word " perks ", i.e. side benefits assoc...

Photo by Zachariah Hagy on Unsplash On the streetcar the other day, I was unavoidably overhea...

Wamfling Photo by Pete Bellis on Unsplash glimflashy , adj. Etymology: < glim n. (a candle) + flashy adj. slang...

Tickets must be ordered in advance, not on sale at the door CHW Kitchener-Waterloo Centre Invites you to join us for our Annu...

I was just at a ballet symposium in San Francisco, and was brought up short by hearing speakers pronounce "ancillary" as ANsill...

This week on Wordlady's Empty Pious Platitudes Watch.... No, you're not imagining it. The use of that annoying phrase "thou...

I am currently researching a course about varieties of English worldwide, one of these being Welsh English. I had read that a distinctive...