Apostrophes—those things that look like single quotes, or maybe commas hanging in the air—have a couple of uses in the English language.

Polysemia – An abnormal awareness of possible ambiguity; the uncontrollable tendency to bring to mind an inappropriate or unintended sense of a word in any context.

With a new word added to the language every two hours (want a new word? wait 120 minutes!), there is always something new for word lovers to learn.

The English language is alive and well—and changing. And that is probably a good thing, as much as grammarians like me resist some of these changes.

Sometimes, like any other job, being an author/publisher is frustrating! I had a doozie last week.