Itβs a grammatical question that trips up even the best writers sometimes: Is it who or whom? A physician says he likes the sentiment in a colleagueβs email signature, but heβs not sure itβs 100% grammatical. The sentence: βThere are some patients...
windowing Β n.βΒ Β«If you want to watch new episodes of βRescue Me,β which airs on News Corp.βs FX, youβve got to be patient, then act fast. New episodes donβt show up on Hulu until eight days after they premiere on the cable channel, but they donβt...
Martha tries to unravel the tangled etymological web that connects gossamer, spiders, geese, and warm weather in a late autumn.
biscuit belt Β n.βΒ Β«Well the area of the country that I practice in Gastonia North Carolina is what some physicians refer to euphemistically is the biscuit belt. We have a problem with patients being overweight.» ββDoctor describes health crisis in...
Word nerd Ammon Shea quit his job as a furniture mover in New York City to spend an entire year reading the entire Oxford English Dictionary. The result, in addition to eyestrain, headaches, and skepticsβ puzzlement, was Sheaβs new book, Reading the...
cutter t-shirt Β n.βΒ Β«Levine recalled a teen patient from a middle-class family. She was wearing what is known as a βcutter t-shirt,β a long-sleeve t-shirt with a hole cut into the end of the sleeve to slip over the thumb and hide self-inflicted...

