Even though blogs can’t read and newspapers can’t speak, it’s totally appropriate to write “the blog reads,” or “the newspaper says.” This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “The Blog...
Would you rather live in a world with no adjectives … or no verbs — and why? Also, who in the world is that director Alan Smithee [SMITH-ee] who made decades’ of crummy films? Turns out that if a movie director has his work wrested away...
Mitch in Florida, a video editor, wanted a fancy, billable-sounding verb for extracting video from a computer — the opposite of ingesting it into a system. Listener suggestions ranged from cull, evict, extirpate, expunge, expede, disassemble...
Some people proudly embrace the label cancer survivor, while others feel that’s not quite the right word. Is there a better term for someone who’s battled cancer? Writers and listeners share the best sentence they’ve read all day...
The expressions such as and such clauses as are both acceptable. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Such As vs. Such Clauses As” Hello, you have A Way with Words. Hello. Hi, this is Jeff Raymer in Grapevine. Grapevine...
If an older man and woman spend lots of time together, going to family gatherings and the like, but they’re NOT dating, what do you call their relationship? Best friends? Dear friends? Or . . . something else? And a marathon runner who’s...