Word Watch: Vibrancy
Is it really a compliment for one’s home to be described as “vibrant”?
Is it really a compliment for one’s home to be described as “vibrant”?
A word derived directly from Yiddish is emerging into view as a fully accredited noun.
The word “masterpiece” has broadened under the pressure of everyday usage and lost some of its sharpness of purpose.
A redundant usage of the word “as” has established itself, like a Japanese weed, so rapidly in our higher journalism.
Pedants may disapprove of the growing legitimacy of a once “improper” construction. But perhaps we can celebrate a small simplification.
Since the turn of the century, it’s been fascinating to observe how common singular nouns have – for no apparent reason – become plural.
Even highly literate writers are caught out by the interlocking permutations of the two verbs ‘to lay’ and ‘to lie’.
This thoroughly alien word has arrived on our shores and penetrated the higher echelons of one of our most conservative institutions.
The problem with the term ‘gender’ is that it has a generally understood meaning and unmooring it from that meaning tends to render it useless.
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