language

If you want to pronounce "homage" to a tee, it may depend what you mean.

As we live our lives, there's some new slang words that can help us narrate it as we go. That is, if we're in a demographic that allows us to use slang credibly.

We don’t all agree on whether or not we should correct the phrasing "whether or not."

We can talk about sending emails back and forth. But why does it sound odd to talk about sending them forth and back?

Given that “tuna” is a fish, some may find it unnecessary to call out that fact out in the compound “tuna fish.” For others, “fish” may be an important distinction.

You can be prone to do something, whether you're lying down or not.

There’s evidence of a new peeve arising. This one is focused on “training” as a countable noun.

Lots of people don't like the redundancy in "irregardless." However, no one's fussy about the redundancy in a phrase like "a friend of mine."

An ouster can be an act of ousting, or it can be the one who does the ousting. But we seem to have opted for one of those meanings over the other.

“The Future,” a new speculative novel by the Montreal-based writer Catherine Leroux, reimagines what Detroit would be like today if the French had never ceded the city to the British in 1760.