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November 2013

November 30, 2013

Math Lesson of the Day: Quick Averages

Math Lesson of the Day: Quick Averages When I was a kid, my teachers...

November 28, 2013

Word of the Day: thank

Word of the Day: thank Our word today sounds like think, and that’s appropriate,...

November 27, 2013

Grammar Lesson of the Day: Voice

Grammar Lesson of the Day: Voice My students have been taught that a verb...

November 25, 2013

Doggerel of the Day: The Obamarama Limerick Contest

Announcing, for your intellectual exercise, the First Annual Obamara Limerick Contest. Here's my entry. The...

November 23, 2013

Word of the Day: tidings

Word of the Day: tidings. “Time and tide wait no man,” says...

November 22, 2013

Grammar Lesson of the Day: Infinitives

Grammar Lesson of the Day: Infinitives. “Her five year mission,” cut to three...

November 21, 2013

Word of the Day: worry

Word of the Day: worry. Imagine somebody in the grip of worry. She wrings...

November 19, 2013

Word of the Day: forgo

Word of the Day: forgo The word is commonly but inaccurately spelled forego, but...

November 01, 2013

Exploring the Real Lessons of Prohibition

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

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)

Word of the Day: punch (the drink) No, it has nothing to do with...

September 24, 2013

Grammar Lesson of the Day: Odd Plurals

Grammar Lesson of the Day: Odd Plurals Old English words formed their plurals in various...

September 22, 2013

Word of the Day: queen

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

Grammar Lesson of the Day: The Future Participle “Hail, Caesar!” cried the gladiators in the...

September 19, 2013

Word of the Day: dust (again)

Word of the Day: dust, again. Lily Munster walks about the tumbledown parlor, shaking a...

September 18, 2013

Grammar Lesson of the Day: participles

Grammar Lesson of the Day: Participles I ask my college freshmen, “How many of you...

September 16, 2013

Word of the Day: dust

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)

MPE Award of the Day (Maximum Possible Error): James Rado and Gerome Ragni: The Age...

September 14, 2013

Grammar Lesson of the Day: redundancy

Grammar Lesson of the Day: Redundancy The word redundant suggests a wave that keeps splashing...

September 13, 2013

Word of the Day: slack

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

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

Grammar Lesson of the Day: Pronominal Case. I watch a lot of Saint Louis Cardinals...

September 10, 2013

The MPE Award (Maximum Possible Error) of the Day: Tris Speaker

Back in 1920, the New York Yankees, who had never won much of anything, acquired...

September 08, 2013

Word of the Day: science

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

Word of the Day: beer “Hey Matty, hey Matty,” said the football player down...

September 07, 2013

Word of the Day: antique

Word of the Day: antique Napoleon snorted that the British were a “nation of shopkeepers,”...

September 06, 2013

Word of the Day: Grammar

Word of the Day: grammar Welcome to Word of the Day, a daily foray into...