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"Nothing to do with us!" Photo by NASA on Unsplash I do not for a moment believe in astrology, but our ancestors did,...

Photo by Christin Hume on Unsplash A friend of mine recently wrote on Facebook about someone's ego being stroked by the sycoph...

Photo by Alabaster Co on Unsplash My post about the pronunciation of "salmon" (click here ) elicited this enterta...

Photo by Scott Webb on Unsplash A Wordlady reader has asked what we are doing during our enforced isolation. Are we whiling awa...

A friend of mine posted this on Facebook: "You might as well go ahead and pronounce the L in SALMON. Nothing matters anymore" I...

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...