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18/02/2022

Today I discuss the most divisive issue of our time, the one issue that pits one American against another and has left us as a house divided - the change in meaning of the word "literally."

Right now, I feel that I could figuratively claim that there are millions of people on the internet right now who are, rhetorically speaking, armed to the teeth, ready to literally kill the people who use the word literally to mean figuratively, and that no fewer than 5 people on my feed would liter...

09/01/2022

For my second blog post in two months, let's talk about the weather and the phrase Cloud 9 - a phrase of happiness and elation that strikes me as problematic emotionally and scientifically. Cloud 8 will surprise you! (That's what I'm supposed to put here to get the views, right?)

The idea or phrase “cloud 9” is thought to have come from the publication in 1896 of the first International Cloud Atlas – a book for meteorologists around the world to use as a guide for labeling the different clouds they are observing, allowing for the standardization of the names with shape...

13/11/2021

An experiment in the idea that all you need in order to start publicly writing is a lazily built blog and access to the Oxford English Dictionary (if even that), hello and welcome to my new project, Idiometry: exploring words from all angles. For the first entry, I could think of nothing better than an overthought exploration of the word with the third most dictionary entries, "go"

“Go” is, by the Oxford English Dictionary’s count, the word with the third highest number of definitions. “Set” settles in second place and “run” rushes ahead for first, aided by the tech boom of the recent decades which has left all of us who operate a little slower perhaps running on...

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