Earlier today on Twitter, Bryan Garner vented with a couple of complaints: In a new piece in the TLS, Tom Shippey preposterously claims that the descriptivists have trounced the prescriptivists in the ...

A small Episcopal church I once attended discovered that its Stations of the Cross were beautiful, delicate Italian porcelain. A previous rector had covered the porcelain with gray paint, the better ...

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I WOULDN'T have expected Kingsley Amis to be the one to nail this just right, but he did. His son Martin wrote an essay for the Guardian a little while back about Kingsley's 1997 usage book "The ...