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November 2013

November 30, 2013
Math Lesson of the Day: Quick Averages   When I was a kid, my teachers...
November 28, 2013
Word of the Day: thank   Our word today sounds like think, and that’s appropriate,...
November 27, 2013
Grammar Lesson of the Day: Voice   My students have been taught that a verb...
November 25, 2013
Announcing, for your intellectual exercise, the First Annual Obamara Limerick Contest.  Here's my entry.  The...
November 23, 2013
  Word of the Day: tidings.        “Time and tide wait no man,” says...
November 22, 2013
  Grammar Lesson of the Day: Infinitives.   “Her five year mission,” cut to three...
November 21, 2013
Word of the Day: worry.   Imagine somebody in the grip of worry. She wrings...
November 19, 2013
Word of the Day: forgo   The word is commonly but inaccurately spelled forego, but...
November 01, 2013
Writing over at Crisis Magazine: So, then, what does Prohibition teach us? That amendment inserted...

October 2013

October 01, 2013
Grammar Lesson of the Day: Foreign Plurals There are four groups of nouns from Latin...

September 2013

September 30, 2013
  Word of the Day: punch (the drink) No, it has nothing to do with...
September 24, 2013
Grammar Lesson of the Day: Odd Plurals Old English words formed their plurals in various...
September 22, 2013
  Word of the Day: queen All my life long, feminists have claimed that language...
September 20, 2013
Grammar Lesson of the Day: The Future Participle “Hail, Caesar!” cried the gladiators in the...
September 19, 2013
Word of the Day: dust, again. Lily Munster walks about the tumbledown parlor, shaking a...
September 18, 2013
Grammar Lesson of the Day: Participles I ask my college freshmen, “How many of you...
September 16, 2013
Word of the Day: dust “Dust you are, and unto dust you shall return,” said...
September 15, 2013
MPE Award of the Day (Maximum Possible Error): James Rado and Gerome Ragni: The Age...
September 14, 2013
Grammar Lesson of the Day: Redundancy The word redundant suggests a wave that keeps splashing...
September 13, 2013
Word of the Day: slack. Have you ever noticed that there aren’t any words in...
September 12, 2013
Grammar Lesson of the Day: because. Some years ago I began to notice that my...
September 11, 2013
Grammar Lesson of the Day: Pronominal Case. I watch a lot of Saint Louis Cardinals...
September 10, 2013
Back in 1920, the New York Yankees, who had never won much of anything, acquired...
September 08, 2013
Word of the Day: science “He’s a scientist and he’s OK, He sleeps all night...
September 08, 2013
  Word of the Day: beer “Hey Matty, hey Matty,” said the football player down...
September 07, 2013
Word of the Day: antique Napoleon snorted that the British were a “nation of shopkeepers,”...
September 06, 2013
Word of the Day: grammar Welcome to Word of the Day, a daily foray into...
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