Yogurt or yoghurt? Wherefore the ‘h’?
Yogurt or yoghurt? Yoghurt was responsible for my second gustatory (i.e. “taste”) epiphany, back when I was an 18-year-old stripling on my first solo holiday,…
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mitigate vs militate. Is mitigate against correct?
militate vs mitigate Only two letters/phonemes distinguish them, but their meanings are worlds apart—theoretically, at least. mitigate Mitigate, from Latin mītigāre, is transitive, means, broadly…
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A part vs apart. A part of or apart of it, New York, New York?
The other day I noticed a tweet about a big demo in London – the demonstrators wanted to revoke some obscure Article or other, I…
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smoky or smokey? Which is correct?
Is it smoky or smokey? If you’re thinking about the adjective (e.g. a whisky with smoky notes), the standard and more frequent spelling is smoky.…
Rees-Mogg and half a loaf is better than no bread.
To signal his reluctant acquiescence to an agreement he previously opposed, Jacob Rees-Mogg could hardly have chosen a better phrase then the time-honoured, homely proverb…
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The more I know of people, the more I love my dog … Más conozco a la gente … Comparisons in Spanish.
Más conozco a la gente, más quiero a mi perro. ‘The more I know of people, the more I love my dog.’ (For a learning…
