A sign in front of a restaurant reads: “Today’s special. So’s tomorrow.” Not the best way to tempt hungry passersby, but an excellent way to catch the attention of language buffs like Grammar Girl ...

English is a very rich language, replete with a wealth of idioms, expressions, and turns of phrase to express any thought, mood, or scenario. Take the word “take,” for example. It takes on a myriad of ...

Slavery is mentioned in the Oxford English Dictionary entry for that usage of the phrase, but some online discussions of it appear to be based on a misunderstanding of what it says. Did the phrase ...

In any garden-variety conversation between millennial women who date (or, indeed, don’t date) men, you can almost guarantee that the phrase "men are trash" will come up. It’s an in-joke that women ...