The term pigs, in reference to police officers, comes from England’s underground criminal slang and shows up in the early 1800s. It refers to pigs as vile creatures that take more than their share, akin to police officers who would take the illicit...
Liz from Grand Prairie, Texas, asks why her mother used anywho as a way to wrap up a long story or pivot to a new topic. Anywho and anyhoo are playful variants of anyhow, first appearing as representations of Irish speech and now common in North...
Is it ever okay to write the word it’s to indicate the possessive? Is the correct sentence “The dog is chewing its bone,” or “The dog is chewing it’s bone”? It’s easy to figure out once you know the formula: It’s = it is. Grant mentions that there’s...
