The other day I boasted to the Internet about how I spelled perpetuity correctly on the first try. When you live alone and don’t leave the house much you boast about all kinds of minor…
Posts tagged words
Mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging, monosyllabic simpleton
Much to the surprise of everyone, I actually (pretty much) held to my 2010 resolution of writing down the words I had to look up in the dictionary. In 2010, I looked up approximately 105…
It begs the question, why are you such an annoying pedant?
Ha! I fooled you. That’s not begging the question at all. No, in fact begging the question, is a form of logical fallacy. In this case begging the question would be something like: Jodi is…
I am a word bigot too
I read this post over on HTML Giant about word bigotry and felt a little bit like, “oh, I have found my people.” Sure, sure we all have those words we hate. In fact some…
I’m bringing strumpet back, all those other philanderers don’t know how to act
Earlier this morning while I was working on a review of The Ask (it’ll be on MN Reads tomorrow), I looked up the word philandering. I was doing it more to make sure I was…