I find grammar, punctuation, semantics, etc. to be quite interesting and tend to obsess over certain rules or peculiarities. In addition to my constant battle against incorrectly dangling prepositions, I am currently focused on each versus both, using ellipses (…) instead of three periods (...) and proper choice of hyphens and dashes.
I mention this interest [...]
Today's Dictionary.com Word of the Day evoked images of a disc speeding away down the field, far beyond reach of even the fastest cutter, or just plain out the back of the endzone:
bouleversement \bool-vair-suh-MAWN\, noun:
Complete overthrow; a reversal; a turning upside down.
But, wait, what does the last part of the definition mean? Is it [...]
"Anyways" is not a word and I am striving to strike this colloquialism from my speech. "Anyway" is an adverb meaning "anyhow" or "in any case."
This attempt takes the same form as that of avoiding sentences ending with a preposition and correct usage of "who" and "whom." When I commit an error in speech or [...]