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Come on, people! There's no "p" in whomstever.https://twitter.com/bestofnextdoor/status/1385071383642664964 Not in the spelling, anyway. There may be an epenthetic [p] (that is, one that is inserted for pronunciation reasons),

I had to do an assignment on English hypocoristics (that is, nicknames) in my grad-level phonology class, and it was really fascinating.https://twitter.com/CWWilkie/status/1313897026329939968 The most common way to make a short

I'm grading editing tests from intern applicants again, and it's reminding me how much I hate most editing tests. Too many of them, I think, don't really test editing skill.

Google is great in a lot of ways (and creepy and invasive in a lot of others), but I cannot for the life of me understand why so many of

I was taught in honors eleventh-grade English that sentences couldn't start with pronouns. Our daily grammar lessons mostly consisted of taking sentences like "He went to the store" and changing

Trying to decide at what point I should give up on editing "as such" when it's used to mean "therefore" or "consequently." It's EVERYWHERE. I think I'm definitely in the