Searches inAmericanandBritishcorpora show some of the many ways these expressions are used. The voluminousMerriam-Webster Dictionary of English Usage(MWDEU) offers ahistorical surveyof both usage and commentary, and concludes that all three “have been in standard usage since the 16th and 17th cent...
In many ways he was the spiritual ancestor of Bruce Grobbelaar, brilliant but erratic, with the capacity to make you wonder if was actually watching the game. And like that other famously flamboyant Welsh goalie, Neville Southall, he was proof that you didn't have to be miserable to be a...
aIf you hear the sound of a handset beeping in a bag or pocket, you could be forgiven for thinking that someone has received a text message. But nowadays there are so many different ways of messaging someone that it could spell the death of the traditional text as we know it. Text mess...
Mastodon, in this context, is an open-source social platform that’s been around for about six months now, but is picking up speed today, thanks to nods from Sarah Jeong at Motherboard and Casey Newton at the Verge. It’s kind of like Twitter, except for all the ways it’s not. ...