He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and point-devise companions; such rackers of orthography Holofernes in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost (http://shakespeare.mit.edu/lll/lll.5.1.html) While neologisms such as…
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Making words mean what you want
‘[…] There’s glory for you!’ [Humpty Dumpty said.] ‘I don’t know what you mean by “glory,”’ Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. ‘Of course you don’t—till I tell you. I meant “there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!”’ ‘But “glory”…
Tagged with: commonly confused words, frequently confused words, meaning, semantics
Posted in Etymology, Grammar, Vocabulary
Posted in Etymology, Grammar, Vocabulary
The word ‘Brexit’ is factually incorrect
This is more of a geographical than lexical post, but relates to a mistake that is made by writers, journalists, politicians and myriad others on a daily basis: ‘UK’, ‘Britain’ and ‘the British Isles’ are not interchangeable. In the wake…
Tagged with: Brexit, Britain, British Isles, England, etymology, geography, Great Britain, Northern Ireland, political, region, Scotland, UK, United Kingdom, Wales
Posted in Etymology, Geography, Proofreading/copy-editing, Vocabulary
Posted in Etymology, Geography, Proofreading/copy-editing, Vocabulary