The Grammar Diva Blog - Bites of Grammar and Such

Being both a song lyricist and a grammarian, I notice the obvious grammar errors in popular song lyrics…

There are words in other languages that cannot really be translated into English…

Contronyms (also spelled contranyms) are words that are their own opposites…

You might not use these strange, often antiquated, words very often. Do you know what they mean?

A binomial is a mathematical expression consisting of two terms. But there are also binomials in language, and they are basically the same. A binomial comprises two words that go together in an idiomatic expression, such as up and down.