The Oxford Dictionary has added 1000 new words to its online dictionary in the latest quarterly update. Many of these words are slang, such as manspreading and butt dialing.
The Grammar Diva Blog - Bites of Grammar and Such
Best of the Grammar Diva: How to Write Possessives
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!).
Best of the Grammar Diva – Apostrophes: When to Use Them—And When Not To
Apostrophes—those things that look like single quotes, or maybe commas hanging in the air—have a couple of uses in the English language.
Tainted Words
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.
New Ways with Old Words (and Punctuation) – Part 2
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.
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