I've always justified it (when dealing with people whose calendars start the week on Monday, for example) by pointing out that a rope has two ends, an...

Richard Morley said I run an English practise group here is Madrid, Spain and always greet the females with "Evening Ladies". When you get to the ...

Additional data point regarding booby/bubbie/etc: In the movie Beach Blanket Bingo, the "real" villain South Dakota Slim (in contrast to the "comic r...

I've got a slightly earlier cite now for "poindexter" to describe a nerd. Just rewatched the 1980 movie Midnight Madness on TCM, and the "green tea...

Not that it has any bearing on the grammar points being asked about, but you may want to update that business about "the nine planets that orbit the s...

I don't know where he picked up the habit (and I'm sure he was never a slave), but Tiny Tim always addressed and even referred to women as "Miss" plus...

It's telling that this is happening in a Chinese restaurant, because the term that comes to mind is kow-tow, from a mostly obsolete Chinese custom. T...

There's always trouble lurking when you try to compare negative things. When you "turn up the air conditioner", are you trying to make the temperatur...

Another -ing verb I see misused a lot, apparently by people who don't quite grasp its meaning, is untelling, to mean nobody knows and perhaps nobody c...