Everyone wants to understand the generation below them. Can young people rebuff those efforts by being completely absurd? Everyone wants to understand the generation below them. Can young people ...

The slang phrase "6-7" does not typically have a serious meaning and is often used for fun or as a joke. Some users on TikTok have associated the phrase with the 2024 rap song “Doot Doot (6 7)” by ...

"In team play, golfers call this 'ham and egging it.' Translated, it means when one player is in trouble, the other is saving the day." —Charles Clines, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1986 I heard the ...

Advertisers have long debated the merits of broad match versus phrase match in Google Ads. But while arguments around query control and relevancy remain valid, a less discussed but more decisive ...

For a couple of decades, Ellen Jovin co-ran a communication company with her husband to help executives better express themselves. Then, in 2018, outside a subway station in New York, she set up a ...

A four-letter acronym that started as a way to describe President Donald Trump's tariff policies has morphed into a viral social media phrase, much to his ire. Financial Times columnist Robert ...

We are concluding our discussion on phrases, clauses and sentences today. In the last two classes, we compared the three, underlining how a sentence is usually a combination of clauses and phrases. We ...

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Remember that scene from "The Incredibles" where the mom (Helen Parr) pilots a jet? She outmaneuvers missiles, turns herself into an armored ball and then a parachute to save her kids from the ...

There is a statistically significant decline in the frequency of MUST and a statistically significant rise in the frequency of HAVE TO. HAVE GOT TO has decreased over the thirty year period (this is ...

“Rebel With a Clause” celebrates the improbable cross-country journey of a woman who gently imparts grammar rules to strangers. Ellen Jovin, wearing a “Grammar Is Groovy” T-shirt, is the star of ...