Here’s a chance for us to make beautiful music together
July 5, 2025
William Shakespeare began his comedy “Twelfth Night” with the line “If music be the food of love, play on!” About a century later, playwright William
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William Shakespeare began his comedy “Twelfth Night” with the line “If music be the food of love, play on!” About a century later, playwright William
I am a freelance writer of magazine and newspaper columns and articles. That means that I write these pieces on a fee-paid assignment basis rather
Recently, the Scripps National Spelling Bee, held in Washington, DC, celebrated its centennial. Since 1925, children across our fair land have competed in classroom, school,
DEAR RICHARD: I have a difficult time when people say, “I’m outa here” when they are still right here. If they were truly “outa here,” they
The typographical error Is a slippery thing and sly. You can hunt till you are dizzy, But somehow it will get by, Till the forms
One of my favorite newspaper corrections reads: “It was incorrectly reported last Friday that today begins T-shirt Appreciation Week. It is actually Teacher Appreciation Week.”
Ben Duke, of Philadelphia, has sent me a photograph of the front of a store in Brierly Hall, England. The sign reads: Goodwyns Furniture Ltd.
These days, we hear and read a lot about battalions of government workers getting fired. The meaning of “fired” (“to discharge someone from a job”)
DEAR RICHARD: Thank you for giving me the bird in your recent column about our feathered friends. I just wish I could be your wing
Welcome to the website woven for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores. Carnivores eat meat; herbivores eat plants and vegetables; verbivores devour words. If you are heels over head (as well as head over heels) in love with words, tarry here a while to graze or, perhaps, feast on the English language. Ours is the only language in which you drive in a parkway and park in a driveway and your nose can run and your feet can smell.