An antidote is a remedy that relieves. If you get earaches from long rides in pressurized airplane cabins, it’s best to travel equipped with the ….
Author: Gregg Bridgeman
BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front) The plural of analysis is analyses. analysis: a detailed examination of anything complex in order to understand its nature or ….
Analogy, Simile, and Metaphor all make comparisons, but do so in different ways. Analogy is an argument that logically compares things based on particular aspects ….
To amuse someone is to make that person laugh or otherwise keep his attention. Perhaps some of you find my dry sense of humor amusing. ….
Gosh, this is a huge topic. Huge. Massive. AMOUNT words and NUMBER words and—all the words that fall into their categories—are used to describe how ….
BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front) The plural of amoeba rightly is amoebae and wrongly can also be amoebas. amoeba: any of a large genus (Amoeba) ….
Some English nouns end with either “-es” or “-s” which can pose a problem when differentiating the singular, plural, or possessive forms. Most don’t pose ….
Dear Weeping Editor, As far as I know, the word “sound” is a noun, is it not? However, lately I keep seeing it used as ….
While you may occasionally encounter the following Latin abbreviations, they are becoming increasingly rare—kind of like unicorns. Personally, I would not recommend using them. Use ….
Most of the words English stole from the French which have clung to their “-eur” endings are pretty sophisticated, like “grandeur,” “saboteur,” “coiffeur,” “entrepreneur,” and ….