A Buffet of Tidbits to Tickle a Language Lover’s Palate

  Having written more than 60 books and thousands of articles and columns, I, your fly-by-the-roof-of-the mouth, user-friendly language columnist, confess to be afflicted with graphomania. Derived from the Greek roots grapho, “writing,” and mania, “obsession,” graphomania is “an obsessive inclination to write.” I am a graphomaniac. I also harbor an obsessive inclination to collect […]