by Mary | Mar 15, 2011 | Word Rants
If you check the bottom of these pages, you’ll see that my website was designed by Etsuko Dunham, who is from Miyako, Japan. After some nerve-wracking days and sleepless nights, she has heard from her sister. Their family is safe and their house is okay,...
by Mary | Nov 5, 2010 | Word Rants
Okay, this has just got to stop. Twice now, I’ve heard reporters on CNN use effort as a verb, as in, “I’m efforting to find out, Wolf!” No, darling. You are trying to find out. Or, if you’re not into the whole brevity thing, perhaps you...
