So, I've been spending a lot of time on the Library of Congress's website because I'm a sucker for really old books. Yesterday, I came across a book called Mental…
You're about to take a truly difficult trivia quiz, with topics ranging from movies to science to general (and ungeneral) knowledge. It will infuriate you, it will humble you, and…
In a world of spell-check, dictionaries and proper grammar knowledge seem to be becoming increasingly obsolete (looking at you, people who can't tell the difference between there, they're, and their…
The English language is a funny thing. Like, tell me why "barking up the wrong tree" is a phrase you'd use in a total non-tree context. Let's test how fluent…
So, it was no surprise when Merriam-Webster (like, the word officials) dropped their list of the most commonly misspelled words. And I'll be just as surprised to see how many…