Hopium
If you thought the 2008 financial crisis signaled the end of “irrational exuberance”, the overly …
Category: Terms of the Times
Up Your Alley … or In Your Wheelhouse?
Something may be up your alley or up your street, but can it be “in …
Does your “most” mean the mostest?
Numbers add both comforting precision and eerie uncertainty to life. For precision’s sake, we like …
A Return to Yesteryear
You may consider the word “yesteryear” to be a clumsy fusion of “yesterday” and “year”. …
Words that Aren’t Quite Words
Copying and pasting text or images is an established and tidy practice: we copy the …