Welcome, wordsmiths and language lovers!📚You may think you have an impressive vocabulary, but it’s about time to put that ...
Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...
Some time ago, I fell into conversation with a colleague about what we had been reading lately, and the person suggested that I absolutely must give Henry James’s “The Ambassadors” a try. The pandemic ...
Many people believe that peruse means to read something quickly. In fact, the opposite is true: Peruse means to “read with thoroughness or care.” Used correctly, you would say, “I spent at least an ...
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In the beginning was the Word. -John 1:1, King James Bible I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. -Emily Dickinson, Letters Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most ...