Category: Grammar & Idioms
On Backronyms, Ambiguous Acronyms, and More Shorthand to Confuse You
Adidas stands for “All Day I Dream About Sports.” I remember when a friend of mine...
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Grammar 101: Into vs. In To (With Example Sentences)
Just like the difference between “every day” and “everyday,”...
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Grammar 101: A Home Is Not a House
For better or for worse, I have a habit of getting caught up in semantics. Word choice matters to...
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Grammar 101: Common Mass Nouns
Count nouns (or countable nouns, if you prefer) refer to things that can be counted, like chairs...
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Grammar 101: Pour Over and Pore Over
The English language is filled with words and phrases that sound similar (or the same) but have...
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Grammar 101: Quay, Cay, and Key
By now, you’ve surely realized that English is a very strange language filled with numerous...
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Idiomatica: Why Kitty Corner?
I’ve used the term “kitty corner” for as long as I can remember. It refers to...
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Idiomatica: In the Throes of Passion
In the heat of the moment, it’s perfectly understandable that you would default to the most...
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Idiomatica: Bite the Bullet
It’s been a minute since I’ve done one of these Idiomatica posts, hasn’t it? The...
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Grammar 101: Beside and Besides
In writing and in speech, we tend to focus on the “big” words for the biggest impact....
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Grammar 101: Second Hand, Second-Hand or Secondhand?
English can be a very tricky language. Even when you look at words that are spelled using the...
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Grammar 101: Let’s and Lets
Punctuation matters. It’s the difference between “let’s eat, grandma!”...
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Hi, I'm Michael. By day, I'm a writer and editor. By night, I'm still a writer and editor. I'm also an engaged work-at-home dad, a voracious foodie, an avid traveler, and a thinker who thinks he might be thinking too much. Beyond the Rhetoric is a reflection of my eclectic life, fueled by caffeine and Wi-Fi.
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