Zack in Santa Barbara, California, is curious about what’s happening when someone interjects the expression Right? in the middle of a sentence or explanation without allowing time for the listener to respond. Expressions like Right? and You know...
Awesome and awful may have the same root, but they’ve evolved opposite meanings. Awful goes back more than a thousand years, when it originally meant “full of awe” and later “causing dread.” Awesome showed up later and fulfills a different semantic...
A former Navy man has a pet peeve about using the word utilize instead of use. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Utilize vs. Use” Hello, you have A Way with Words. Hi, how you doing? Hi. Hey, who is this? This is Josh from...