Language peeves are sometimes a bit hard to understand - the strange case of hard and difficult

I recently came across this, from a commenter at the linguistics blog Arrant Pedantry: Schoolwork (homework) is not “hard”; it is “difficult...

Watching on as an expression takes root

Here are a few quotes from the British media: But detectives watched on as he landed and hid on the plane for two hours, before flying off t...

Random thoughts on 'Kiss me quick'

Preparing a possible post on flat adverbs (adverbs that take the same form as their adjective equivalents) I started wondering about the ori...

Random thoughts on 'Early Doors'

Seeing the World Cup has just started, it seems a good time to look at an expression whose popularity largely stems from its use by those wh...