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 ...

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...