A Walk in the WoRds

Looking at this photo, I can almost hear Robert Irvine saying, "all's I want is..." The use of this contraction has ne...

What a profound way of switching sounds and words around to create a clever and appropriate advertisement. This is just one ad fro...

I have been seeing this sign at street corners in Michigan lately and I can't help but play with the wording every time I see it.  ...

Burnett's Flavored Vodkas may have launched the " Always Your Flavorite " advertising campaign over a year ago, but I just s...

Driving on the expressway recently, I passed a truck bearing a particular phrase. Most drivers would probably write it off as an eponymous ...

Michigan's warning signs regarding ice on bridges are pretty straightforward syntactically; in fact, I can't think of any other w...

I love these post-it notes that came with a book I ordered. Too bad they don't sell them; I would order a carton. And check out these fu...

'yes-no question' One which has a simple positive or negative answer. CF . closed interrogative, polar interrogative. yod The soun...

There are not too many words or concepts in the study of linguistics that begin with the letter "X"; thus I am unable to present a...

' wanna -contraction' The reduction in American English of forms like want to or going to in I want to (wanna) do it or I'm ...

But 'twou'dn't've been easily comprehensible. The link to the Wiktionary page about English double contractions has been ma...

schwa The mid-central vowel of e.g. the second syllable of matter: in phonetic notation [ ə ] ([matə ]) . Also spelled 'shwa'. sel...

rhotic A term used in English phonology referring to dialects or accents where /r/ is pronounced following a vowel, as in car and cart . V...

quadrisyllabic Having four syllables. A word such as dictatorship is thus a quadrisyllable . quantifier floating Proposed syntactic proce...

The comma is not truly the only punctuation tool you will ever need, but it sure does do a lot. The Purdue Online Writing Guide lists the f...

[Infographic provided by Grammar.net ] Taking this infographic a step further, here is the phrase structure rule for verb phrases in English...

Back in January, I posted about a linguistic phenomenon that I observed and was unable to label. The original post titled "Contraction ...

From r2szoo2

The Verbing of America The verbing of America Is getting out of hand, Yet many nouns are also verbs, Like toast and rake and land. Whe...