Grammatical and Other Peregrinations

Ah, the enormity of it! Just as the use, or to my mind, mis use, by many people of words such as "disinterested" for "uninter...

"I was having high tea at the Empress recently," said an acquaintance recently. "Keeping company with the hoi polloi. "...

A few days ago I was watching a documentary. I heard an English academic pronounce the Laker poet Robert Southey's surname with the vowe...

One of my acquaintances prides himself on his correct grammar. Reasoning that "bad" is an adjective and "feel" is a verb...

"Criterion", "phenomenon", "automaton" and "polyhedron", etc., are borrowings from classical Greek w...

Like "practice" and "practise", "prophecy" is the noun and "prophesy" the verb. The last syllable of...

In the paper this morning, I noticed a comment from a police superintendent about the problem with gangs in Kelowna: Gang activity is huge...