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I've been noticing for a while now that verbal nouns (also called gerunds), that is, nouns with an -ing ending formed from...

After my post  a couple of weeks ago about spelling and homophones, I am very grateful to a Wordlady reader for acquainting me with the f...

With the UK election imminent, my Facebook feed is filling up with posts about "tactical voting".  For those of you who don...

Photo by Kees Streefkerk on Unsplash Here's a challenge for you: how many ways can the syllable that sounds like “SEE” be spe...

Photo by Jannes Jacobs on Unsplash The Saskatchewanism "bunny hug" made its appearance in the Oxford English Dictionary...

I am once again offering this fun and informative survey of the English language, described by one of my students as "the best ...