Alas, Merriam-Webster has given up on distinguishing between home in and hone in, but a careful writer should still make the distinction. Home in means to seek out or zero
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Watch those chicken cliches. The piper is back with a reset button.
Sen. John McCain plunged into the ugly world of mixed metaphorical clichés this week as he ranted about Vladimir Putin, the Russian president. Speaking on the Senate floor on Tuesday,
Continue reading64,700 holiday clichés later …
This started out as a snarky little post about holiday clichés. My local newspaper published the “’Tis the season” headline below this week, making me sigh as I read. Really?
Continue readingSay what you mean, but learn to verb the web
The school year started this week with the usual rush of frenetic energy and confusion. That set the stage perfectly for some of the things I was reading and hearing.
Continue readingHorde vs. hoard and the fading of a grammatical fantasy
I once hoped that the A&E series Hoarders would help people use hoard and horde correctly. That was a fantasy, perhaps, but I thought that seeing the name of the
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