It’s “beyond the pale” and not “beyond the pail.” The phrase has nothing to do with buckets. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pale https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pail To go “beyond the pale” is ….
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When I say “I better run to the grocery and get some eggs,” I mean “I had better,” abbreviated to “I’d better” and further abbreviated ….
So, here’s the thing. You can try to be “as good as” you can be or do something “as well as” you can do it. ….
BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front) The plural of belief is beliefs. belief: a state or habit of mind in which trust or confidence is placed ….
Using “being that” or “being as how” to mean “because” or “since” is, well let’s just say, nonstandard. Using “being that” as a subordinating conjunction ….
The rarely used verb beggar means to reduce to poverty, or the practice of asking for charity. You beggar people by impoverishing them, thus reducing ….
Dear Weeping Editor, I am one of those writers that… makes you cry sometimes. Lately I’ve struggled with ellipsis… or ellipses… however it’s spelled. I ….
Does the English language really need both “began” and “begun”? Wouldn’t it be simpler to just have one past tense version of “begin”? Alas, nobody ….
BLUF: (Bottom Line Up Front) Beef in terms of meat is a mass noun. It has no plural form. beef: the flesh of adult cattle ….
Grammar teachers across these United States of America, please don’t hate me. I’m about to expose a fallacy you’ve taught as truth for years. (Ahem) ….