Steve from San Diego asks whether workplace support documents should describe repeated problems as recurrences or reoccurrences. Recurrence is the safer, far more common choice in corpora and in many dictionaries, although reoccurrence and reoccur...
Get out your umbrellas — it’s raining pitchforks and … bullfrogs? This week, it’s odd expressions that mean “a heavy downpour.” Also, holistic vs. wholistic, recurrence vs. reoccurrence, flash drive vs. thumb drive...
A woman and her boss want to resolve a dispute over the words reoccuring and recurring. Which is correct if you’re talking about something that happens again and again? Grant explains that there is indeed a difference between the two words—and...
