Category Archives: grammar

  1. Clichés, Word Banning, and Cherries

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    May 21, 2025 by libroshombre

                “Keep your eye on the ball” has to be one of baseball’s most fundamental clichés in teaching batting skills, …
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  2. Reduplications, Great Shifts, and Free Speech

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    May 12, 2025 by libroshombre

                Reading my old copy of “Dictionary of American Slang” (DAS), compiled by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Flexner in 1960, …
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    Category: book banning, books, English language, grammar, language, languages, libraries, slang | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  3. Bees, Theopneustic, and OK

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    May 12, 2025 by libroshombre

                The great Beverly Sills liked to say, “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going,” and that’s certainly …
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    Category: abbreviations, games, grammar, Learning, parts of speech, spelling, texting, texts, vocabulary | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  4. Cockroaches, Melting Hearts, and Mark Twain’s Library

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    May 12, 2025 by libroshombre

    Getting from having a cockroach to Mark Twain’s death-defying miracle started with reflecting on weird idioms, “a group of words …
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  5. Idioms, Polyglots, and Polymaths

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    January 3, 2025 by libroshombre

                A delightful little (7 x 5 inch) library book titled “I’m Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears,” came my way …
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  6. Pop-Tarts, Frogs, and the Alamo

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    November 6, 2021 by libroshombre

                “Woman Sues Kellogg Over Lack of Strawberries in Strawberry Pop-Tarts,” a recent Washington Post article, got me considering how …
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  7. Fables, Roadmaps, and Dancing Masters

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    May 7, 2021 by libroshombre

                When I recently found myself reading something titled “Political Uses of Theaesopic Fable,” who else could I blame than …
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    Category: biography, dancing, fables, grammar, libraries, maps | Tags: , , , , ,

  8. (Description, Prescription, and WTF Awards)

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    March 18, 2021 by libroshombre

                The differences between the Biden administration and Trump’s are manifold, but among the more glaring is their approach to …
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  9. English Majors, Edgar Poe, and Ouija Boards

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    November 19, 2019 by libroshombre

    Adventure novelist Clive Cussler wrote, “There is no greater unknown than the sea and no greater mystery than a lost …
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    Category: Englaish Majors, English language, grammar, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , ,

  10. Blount, Y’all! Apostrophes!

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    November 19, 2019 by libroshombre

    The recent snowfall was a reminder to break out my winter fedora and pack away the ball caps of summer, …
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    Category: English language, grammar, printing, pronouns, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , ,

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