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Amazon is one of my favorite stores, online or off. I quickly became addicted to buying books from them, and I’ve since graduated to kitchen items (my second favorite thing to shop for). A week ago, they were offering $25 off an order of $125 in housewares, so I took advantage of that, along with [...]

English lovers and nitpickers take note – I just discovered a great site, called The Eggcorn Database. An eggcorn is a particular type of English mistake wherein the wrong word is used in a common expression. It is usually due to ignorance of the underlying meaning and etymology, and is often the substitution of one [...]

I saw Stomp the Yard this weekend. The dancing was great, but they did something funky with the lighting and camers during some of the more intense scenes, which made everything kind of hard to make out. I’m not sure whether it was just me, or the theater, or what, but it really detracted from [...]

These two English words are very similar; keep reading for further information: Farther vs Further

So the big news in the French press is about the word bravitude used by presidential hopeful Ségolène Royal. Critics are comparing it to Bushisms like “misunderestimate,” but Ms. Royal says that it wasn’t a mistake – she coined the word because the word bravoure just wasn’t strong enough for the Chinese proverb she was [...]

As part of an initiative to encourage British tourism in Paris, French gestures have been “revealed,” for what you would think was the first time ever (learn more). It seems practically every online newspaper has an article about this “guide to understanding Parisians,” and I can only laugh when I check the publication date on [...]

My agent sent me this joke:   A mother mouse and a baby mouse are walking along, when all of a sudden, a cat attacks them.   The mother mouse yells, “BARK!” and the cat runs away. “See?” says the mother mouse to her baby. “Now do you understand why it’s important to learn a foreign language?” [...]