Why Is There a Word for That?
Defenestration means "the action of throwing someone out of a window". Why do we need…
Humble
It seems like whenever someone wins something, an award or a race or something, they…
Unique
Unique is one of the emptiest words in the English language. It means, as I'm…
Credit Where Credit Is Due
One of the big fears people have with ChatGPT and its ilk is that people…
Let’s Put the S in Sex
Photo by Trevor John Williams on Unsplash I think everyone knows that X is the…
Turns Out Knowingness Is a Word, and a Useful Word at That
Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash Knowingness is, "a posture of always ‘already knowing’, of…
Copyediting
Photo by Amador Loureiro on Unsplash I just read an article by Helen Betya Rubinstein…
All Well and Good
Photo by Carson Masterson on Unsplash According to the internet, "all is well" is correct…
A Third Post on ChatGPT
Photo by DeepMind on Unsplash The first two posts are here and here. Yesterday I…