Why We Should All Just Chill Out About Language Change
As I’ve said many times on this blog: language changes. English evolves over time. That’s why the Beowulf poet wrote …
Read MoreCreative New Words from Washington Post Readers
I don’t live in the Washington D.C. environs, so I have only recently discovered the Style Invitational, a weekly humor …
Read MoreVerbing Weirds Language: When Nouns Become Verbs
Verbification, or verbing is the common linguistic transformation of nouns into verbs. This is usually natural, fine, and practical. I …
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