From a Dog’s Life to Top Dog: Canine Influences on Vocabulary
“You’re not a dog I know”, you might think as you see a canine wandering …
“You’re not a dog I know”, you might think as you see a canine wandering …
US President Trump tries to strong-arm Congress on Obamacare, Germany is seen to bully …
Not only the name of a hardy, domesticated ruminant mammal, “goat” is also a …
American pundits talk about the “Fox” view of the world, a reference to the …
Facts making space for alternative facts, the post-truth age subordinating reality to emotion and personal …
Is doublespeak unavoidably negative? If you’re committed to digging underneath its ostensibly euphemistic sheen, …
What’s an egghead or a freeloader? They were once put-downs or even insults, although today …
As noted in a previous post, whole phrases – not just individual words – …
By many measures, US presidential candidate Donald Trump may have to concede that his …
As if life weren’t complicated enough with various demands on our time, such as …