Today we’ll be discussing a couple of words that are pronounced the same way but have very different meanings. Let’s take a look at taught and taut, and a side order of taunt, with some help from the folks in the Magnificent Seven.

( Teaching stretches me so thin. )

Welcome to your Friday, grammar fans, and to another edition of Say What?!  The sayings we’re going to be looking at today are all about the work we do and the quality of that work.  Our friends from the Magnificent Seven will help us take a look at if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well and if you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

( Doing, doing, done! )

Welcome to your Friday and another edition of Say What?.  Today’s proverbs are both about power and ability-who might have them and what might happen.  Let’s take a look at in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king and he who lives by the sword shall die by the sword, assisted our friends ( the Avengers. )

Today’s question deals with double negatives.  We’ll take a look at them and when, if ever, they’re okay to use with a little help from our friends in the Magnificent Seven.

( I don’t want to not learn grammar! )

Welcome to your Friday and another edition of Say What?.  There’s a definite prophetic vibe running through today’s proverbs.  We’ll be taking a look at if the mountain won’t come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain and a prophet is not recognized in his own land, assisted by Sherlock and John from BBC Sherlock.

( Not profit and loss, just prophets )

We’ve been asked “what is the correct way to use the word ‘hopefully’?”  Let’s take a look at this historically controversial issue with some help from the Magnificent Seven.

( Hoping and hoping and hoping )

We’ve been asked, “What are the proper uses for semiannual, biannual, and biennial?”  These three words can cause confusion due to having the same or similar roots.  Let’s take a look at them, with some help from the characters in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

( What’s the measure of a year? )

It’s a day for the kids on today’s Say What? Both of the sayings we’ll be taking a look at deal with children in some way.  Let’s discuss “little pitchers have big ears” and “spare the rod and spoil the child.”

( We’ll be assisted by some of our friends from Fullmetal Alchemist. )

Friends, Romans, Grammarians, lend me your ears-or at least your eyes for the duration of today’s Say What?.  Why kick it off with Mark Antony’s famous line from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar? Today’s edition is steeped in all things Rome, that’s why!  We’ll be taking a look at beware the Ides of March and all roads lead to Rome, with a little help ( Read more... )

Welcome to another edition of Say What?  Beware of the Devil-today we’ll be taking a look at two sayings that have Old Nick in common, namely “Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost,” and “He who sups with the Devil should have a long spoon.”  We’ll be assisted by our friends from the Magnificent Seven.

( The Devil went down to Georgia… )