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The "Bubble" That Keeps on Bubbling 27 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
"We have to turn the page on the bubble-and-bust mentality," President Obama said in a recent weekly address. After the economic ruin of the housing bubble, it's hard to argue with that sentiment. But...
Singalong Word of the Day : parody 27 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Among the many ways of poking fun, parody is a perennial favorite for its ability to get laughs. Parody is all about imitating someone's style in an amusing way. It's from a Greek word with a related ...
Lyrical Accidents: When Pop Music Vocab Goes Wrong 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
"In the mood for dance"? "My heart bleeded"? While creating vocabulary lists of unusual words found in pop music, writer and linguist Adam Cooper ran across some words that go beyond peculiarity and i...
Art Imitates Life Word of the Day : mimesis 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
The mime part of this word correctly clues you up that there's some idea of imitation here. Mimesis means "imitation" or "mimicry," usually in specialized contexts including literature and biology. As...
Double-Barreled Word of the Day : hendiadys 25 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
In a more predictable world, today's word hendiadys might have something to do with poultry, but no such luck. Hendiadys, a word of Greek origin, denotes the expression of a single idea with two words...
Make My World Word of the Day : cosmogony 24 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Ever wonder how we got here? You're not the first, and in fact there are so many before you who have pondered this big question that there is a name for this line of inquiry. Cosmogony is the branch o...
A Peever's Perspective on "Literally" 23 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
We've been keeping tabs on the fuss over the word "literally" over the past couple of weeks, as commentators have expressed indignation that the non-literal definition of the word can be found in both...
Neither Regions: Using "Nor" or Not 22 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Neither you nor I set the "rules" of English; we do it together, by using words in certain ways. But we do learn certain "rules," and we can either remember them, forget them, or ignore them. For exam...
Single Word of the Day : hapax legomenon 22 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
There are words, and then there are words about words. Today's word is a word about a word that only appears once in a language. Hapax legomenon is a borrowing from Greek that means "something said on...
A Long, Loving Look at Writing Short 21 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
I'm jealous. That's my 2-word review of How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times by Roy Peter Clark, who I assume will appreciate the brevity.
