That's What They Say

When we are out of sorts, we’re not out of something specific, like socks or letters, but we may be feeling owly.

The midterm election coverage was inundated with talk of not just waves but potential tsunamis, none of which, of course, involved an inundation of water.

Cookies or bread made from scratch sound great, and raise the question of what the scratch is.

We can be healthy and eating an apple seems clearly healthy, and then there’s the healthy dose of salt, which may not be healthy at all.

If you know how the sound ‘f’ worked in Old English, it suddenly isn’t mysterious why the noun "leaf" with an "f" turns into "leaves" with a "v" when you make it plural

If I say I’m gonna do it, I don’t necessarily mean I’m headed out the door right now to do it.

The New York Times announced that the Merriam-Webster Dictionary “is wordsmaxxing” and NBC News described it as a “glow-up” of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

Concerns about redundancy are back this week. It's the exact same thing we’ve talked about before, but this time about the expression "exact same."

This may be one of the only times that throw pillows, golf, and curling all get wrapped into the same discussion.

While people may agree that being proactive is a positive trait, the word proactive can elicit some very negative reactions, so to speak.