a _____ of mime artists, an epic of fail, a curse of internet explorers, a conspiracy of theoristsThis is the coolest thing I've seen in awhile. "All Sorts is a collection of collective nouns that may or may not have found their way into the Oxford English Dictionary. If you think that a charismatic collective is far superior to a dullard ‘bunch’ ( Read more... )

Usually, I pride myself on being a grammarian. Still, I am a product of the environment in which I was raised ( Read more... )

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When buying popsicles, a sesquipedalian vocabulary is my only real criterion.


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In this sentence, would you put quotation marks around ABC? XYZ is sometimes referred to as ABC.
What's the rule with things like that? Using quotation marks feels right to me, but lately my gut instincts seem to be leading me astray more than they used to. I've also found some things like this, and while that's not the same situation, it makes me ( Read more... )

If there isn't yet, I think there should be a name for words that sound to one like they should mean the exact opposite of whatever they mean. The example that immediately comes to mind is "natty," as applied to couture -- perhaps by comparison to similar-sounding words (e.g. nasty, ratty, etc) it has always sounded to me like it should mean ( Read more... )

No idea how I stumbled across this post, but I am so glad I did.

Thought you all might enjoy this. The last one sort of sums up my feelings about this sort of lists, but in a way that's cute and self-effacing, in contrast to my own crumudgeonly and unpleasant.

Dunno if this is quite up your alley, but I'm sure some of you will get a giggle out of it!

http://slagartist.livejournal.com/4980.html