Is it ever okay to end a sentence with a preposition? Oh, is it ever! Martha and Grant do their best to bury this tired old proscription. It’s a baseless rule concocted by 17-century grammarians, and it’s errant nonsense up with which...
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A native speaker of Spanish has a hard time with prepositions in English. Why do we say that someone’s “on my mind” but “in my heart”? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “On My Mind and In My...
POSH n.— «POsH: Plain Old semantic HTML.…I think POsH suggests more than just the semantics/structure inherent in xhtml, but not (yet, perhaps) a µf.» —“IRC Log for #microformats on 2007-04-06″ by...
bahl gorms n.— «The “Boontling” Knox refers to is a sort of argot or private language valley locals developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries using the syntax of English but substituting parts for wholes or referring...
bucky n.— «The “Boontling” Knox refers to is a sort of argot or private language valley locals developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries using the syntax of English but substituting parts for wholes or referring to...