A Walk in the WoRds

It's not a homonym; it is a drawmonym. From one of my favorite cartoonists, John Atkinson at Wrong Hands . A visual homonym: dr...

It wouldn't be possible without homonyms. From David Soames Design

A cereal comma - Serial, cereal commas - I am a believer in serial commas for their use in preventing ambiguities. Thank you 22 Word s for ...

In honor of the special Jeopardy tournament this week, I have decided to do a daily post with past Jeopardy clues related to language and l...

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Tom's costume was quite the hit this past Halloween. And then he had the bright idea that it would serve him well on Thanksgiving too. H...

Found here .

Though the original article is over a year old, this photo of a headline from Eastern Michigan University's The Echo just showed up in ...

"No Ifs, Ands or Butts." Apparently Hebrew National has been running 15- and 30-second spot television commercials with the above...

I just caught last week's episode of NCIS and I still can't stop laughing about Agent DiNozzo's comment to a witness that he was...

Where crossword puzzles are concerned, pragmatics can be viewed as the ability of the solver to interpret correctly the meaning or sense the...