January 2016

If you’re a grammar pedant like me, signs like this – or ones advertising CD’s For Sale – will most likely make your toes curl and set your teeth on edge. Yet the majority of people have become so used to… Most people are familiar with acronyms, homonyms, pseudonyms and synonyms, but there are several other […]

Most people are familiar with acronyms, homonyms, pseudonyms and synonyms, but there are several other words with the suffix –onym that I’ve only recently discovered. As a linguist and bit of a word nerd, my natural instinct is to investigate… Whilst proofreading several websites and documents recently, one of the common mistakes I came across […]