Words Going Wild

Here's a description of a noted politician:  “[He] was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in...

A good many people recently have been using the word impeach as if it meant to oust someone (guess who) because of mi...

People of a certain age (now mostly dead) will recall the slang phrase 23 Skidoo! It means “to leave quickly,...

There must be a word—although I do not know what it is—to define a metaphorical term whose meaning has supplanted the li...

Yes, I know the “Lie-Lay” Train has left the station without me on it, but two recent misuses of these verbs were so e...

Not many readers, I expect, will recall the pop-jazz singer of the 1940s and 1950s who was invariably introduced as “H...

Normally, I don’t like to steal material from other writers to use in this blog.   Well, that’s not entirely true; I s...