Language Corner

The AP and the latest style

April 29, 2021 By Merrill Perlman

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Presenting presents in the present

January 2, 2019 By Merrill Perlman

How ‘entitlement’ and ‘privilege’ became epithets

December 11, 2018 By Merrill Perlman

On expletives and dummy subjects

December 3, 2018 By Merrill Perlman

Barbed wire, and other terms for how the US is fortifying the Mexican border

November 26, 2018 By Merrill Perlman

The many uses of the term ‘asylum’

November 23, 2018 By Merrill Perlman

Getting to know definite and indefinite articles

November 7, 2018 By Merrill Perlman

How the term ‘false flag’ migrated to the right

October 29, 2018 By Merrill Perlman

The origin of the term ‘intersectionality’

October 23, 2018 By Merrill Perlman

How is skepticism different than cynicism? Find the answer in ancient Greece

October 15, 2018 By Merrill Perlman

The confusion over ‘rebut’ and ‘refute’

October 8, 2018 By Merrill Perlman

Dictionary.com’s most searched words amid Kavanaugh hearings

October 1, 2018 By Merrill Perlman

Merriam-Webster and OED add new words: Lorem ipsum, TL;DR, and more

September 24, 2018 By Merrill Perlman

Hodgepodge, ladder up, and hurtling over hurdles

September 17, 2018 By Merrill Perlman

Dissecting ‘lodestar’ and other words in the news

September 10, 2018 By Merrill Perlman

The many uses of the word ‘surface’

September 4, 2018 By Merrill Perlman

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