That's What They Say

When we’re talking about a small book for teaching children to read, or really any short book that introduces a topic, there are two competing pronunciations of the word for that book.

The word "kid" is already informal, and now we have the word "kiddo" living alongside it.

When it comes to media, here's the message: It’s time for a truce between the singular agreement people and the plural agreement people.

Oh goody, it's time to talk about all the goodies!

It is less ambiguous to say “I badly need to shower” than it is to say “I need to shower badly.”

There’s the hair on our heads and the hares in our yards, and there has been some confusion about which one is part of the expression "harebrained."

We can presume things, which may or may not be presumptuous. We can also assume things, which then raises the question of whether things can be "assumptuous."

We sometimes talk about stealing or robbery in terms of "lifting" things, and this is relevant to "heists" as well.

We will never know some of the informal language that was bandied about among speakers in the time of Beowulf.

There are so many interesting bits of language in the world, we can’t help but notice. The question is, when you notice someone saying something interesting, should you point it out?