So it's interesting to me that although we mostly don't have grammatical gender in English, we do have some words with inherent gender but no neutral alternative (which other gendered words do have). Viz ( Read more... )

The word "weary" is not pronounced "wary". In fact we have the word "wary" for that, which I think is the word you meant to use, when you spoke of not being sure about a particular feature of a particular clothing item. All of you must stop using "weary" to mean "hesitant" right this minute ( Read more... )

(See, I can conjugate too ( Read more... )

You know, I forgot something that was annoying me the other day, and I may have just remembered it, which is that I don't like how the Movie Voiceover Dude in the commercials is pronouncing "Anna" when he advertises "Anna Karenina ( Read more... )

(Side note, it turns out I have used that subject line before, recently enough that the DW posting interface suggested it. HAR ( Read more... )

(That is, there was a train of thought that got me here, but it's not important right now ( Read more... )

Etymology: prop. a phrase all be it (that); in full, all though it be that. This is only a particular instance of all with a verb in subjunctive (see ALL adj. 10), in which the conjunctive phrase becomes a quasi-word. The nominative pronoun it was also often dropped, whence the shorter all be, ALBE n. Before the synthesis was complete, all be it ( Read more... )

You guys. Today in the car on the way to PT I heard the radio weatherman invent a new word. I think. He was talking about how we'll be seeing a few showers tonight, albethem not as severe as the rain we had over the weekend.

Obviously I understand his use of 'albethem' in context, but quite seriously, is this a word now? It seems to analyze ( Read more... )

Dear radio announcers, newsreaders, and other people who speak professionally:

The following words have L's in them:

• million
  
• billion
  
• trillion (etc.)
  
• William
  
• familiar

... I'm sure you can think of others.

I'd like it if you'd stop talking about miyyons of dollars, Prince Wiyyam County, and so on, with all convenient speed ( Read more... )

Serial comma. Serial comma. SERIAL COMMA!

Really, are
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