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,
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64,700 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
Continue readingNext time the escalator stops, think genericide
The term “genericide” popped out from a story I read this week about trademark protection. It’s an odd, specialized word, and yet it fits its meaning perfectly. As Andrew Torrance
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