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The most baffling thing about Jeremy Clarkson’s attack on Meghan is: where was the sub-editor?
January 21 2023
Different initial letters, but do inquire and enquire really mean different things?
January 14 2023
Pele was good, but he wasn’t a sub lime footballer
January 7 2023
We all have portable devices which we can use to solve complex problems
December 31 2022
Is a cracker still a cracker if it doesn’t make a crack?
December 24 2022
When you can’t sit in the hotseat, be on the frontline, or get underway
December 17 2022
Things you don’t like, but don’t really have a reason for disliking
December 10 2022
Soon we’ll all have to accept warm sausage tea
December 3 2022
Black Friday comes thirty-one times a month
November 26 2022
The secret weapon that shows skilled use of language
November 19 2022
The best mistakes are the worst mistakes
November 12 2022
Is permacrisis really the best word we can dream up to describe the events of 2022?
November 5 2022
The single most important record of us: how we lived and how we died.
October 29 2022
Can you milk a propaganda coo? And when did ‘ramped up’ become an acceptable phrase?
October 22 2022
No one ever said ‘A video of an angry-looking cat is mightier than the sword’
October 15 2022
The inverted pyramid: why newspaper paragraphs often consist of a single sentence
October 8 2022
She flashed a smile lurid with predator-red lipstick, and a jar of mustard
October 1 2022
Dash it all — dashmania is a slapdash way to punctuate a sentence
September 24 2022
Good communication stands above any concept of class
September 10 2022
What JRR Tolkein’s invented languages tell us about English
September 3 2022
There he goes, L for leather, moaning and complaining again.
August 27 2022
A literary masterpiece can’t be painted if subtle shades of meaning no longer exist.
August 20 2022
Everyone loses when language becomes a political battleground
August 13 2022
A paean to the English skills of old-fashioned typists
August 6 2022