As a linguist, I’ve lost count of how many times I have been asked what I think of the various language-learning apps. The truth is that I don’t use them. But of late I have been watching my daughter, ...
VERBING nouns annoys a lot of people. Traditional complaints include those against "to impact", "to chair" and "to author". And newly verbed nouns are continually ...
Psychologists, who breathe statistics as a salamander breathes fire, love to count things. They count and classify words to determine what books children should read, what children’s classics should ...
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