Henry W Fowler, author of Modern English Usage (1926), and Wilson Follett, author of Modern American Usage (1966), both included “barbarisms” as headwords in their guides. Fowler defined them as ...
The League Cup "means everything" to Brendan Rodgers as the Celtic manager eyes a return to Hampden by getting the better off old pal John McGlynn. Celtic fell at the first hurdle last season, but ...
Once pushed to the margins of acceptable language thanks to campaigns like " Spread the Word to End the Word ," the R-word all but disappeared from common use by the early 2010s. But in 2024, it seems ...
Rhetoric is all over the news right now. No, not the rhetoric itself, but the word "rhetoric" as people use rhetoric to discuss the concept of rhetoric. And if that seems confusing, that's kind of the ...