Style & Usage
This is where you can find Edited Entries on the above Category
- 'Hitchhiker' Quotations in the Oxford English Dictionary
- 'Let George Do It': A Phrase, and the Stories Behind It
- Guide to Saying Grace in Latin
- Philip K Dick-tionary, Not Wrapped in Wub Fur
- Advertising
- Ampersands
- Antiquated Words and Phrases
- Colin Murphy: Football Manager/Bard
- Declining English
- English Strong and Weak Verbs - a Very Brief Overview
- Ergonomics
- Eskimo - the Wrong Term
- Estuary English
- Etaoin Shrdlu
- Flaming and Trolling
- German Pronunciation
- Gismos, Whatsits and Thingummy Doodahs - A Guide to Vague English
- Graphology - The Art of Handwriting Analysis
- How to Address People in German
- How to Pronounce Turkish
- Interactive Voice Response Systems
- Isms
- Lateral Thinking
- Latin Pronunciation - A Beginner's Guide
- Medical Jargon
- Motion Picture Association of America Ratings System
- Neologisms
- New and Improved - The Great Advertising Fallacy
- Object-oriented Programming
- Oddities of English
- Onomatopoeia
- Origins of the Term 'Antipodean'
- Palindromes
- Political Correctness in the Early American Republic, or, How to Be 'Woke' in 1830
- Punctuation - a Quick Guide
- Puns and Other Word Play
- Puns: A Practical Guide
- Selected Pretentious Literary Terminology
- Self-reference
- Shakespeare's Genius for Creating Words
- Shorthand
- Talkers - Elusive Internet Chat Rooms
- Telling a Tall Tale - A Primer
- Berlitz Phrase Book
- Dark Roots of Blond(e) in The English Language
- Four Main Reasons Why Scientists are Sometimes Incomprehensible
- Interrobang
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Pinyin System - How to Pronounce Mandarin Chinese
- Valid and Invalid Arguments
- We
- Why?
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