Possessives are one of the three cases in the English language (the other two are nominative and objective, but let’s not worry about those!).

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.