by Maeve Maddox | Dec 29, 2017 | Words
A favorite pastime with self-proclaimed online wits is to ridicule English spelling. A particular target is the so-called “I before E rule.” A case in point is this meme a friend recently brought to my attention: The meme offers thirteen words that supposedly...
by Maeve Maddox | Dec 21, 2017 | Words
Even though the Oxford English Dictionary is listed as one of their references, the Jeopardy writers occasionally write a clue without checking it. On December 19, 2017, one of the categories was “More than one meaning.” The clue was: “A coffin, or the gloomy feeling...
