Here is a quiz to help you figure out which American accent you have. Mine is Southern. This article was… Read more »
Posts By: Pam Nelson
Sarah Palin's fascinating rhythm
This year’s presidential campaign is filled with interesting word choices and rhetorical devices. Like many members of the news media,… Read more »
Try a Triangle Grammar Guide quiz
Today’s quiz was inspired and aided by John Bremner’s "Words on Words." The five sentences on the quiz involve word… Read more »
Found treasure
I happened across a copy of John B. Bremner’s "Words on Words" on a bookshelf in The N&O’s computer training… Read more »
Book review: "The Secret Life of Words"
"The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English" by Henry Hitchings. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 448 pages, September 2008…. Read more »
Candidates and their rhetoric
Speeches in this year’s presidential campaign are awash in a rhetorical device called antimetabole, according to an article in Slate…. Read more »
Word watch: Anonymize
A discussion on the radio show "On The Media" about Google’s data gathering used this word: anonymize. You can click… Read more »
Who's a boomer?
I’ve heard a few journalists refer to Barack Obama and Sarah Palin as part of the post-baby boom generation. In… Read more »
Looking into "maverick"
A reader sent a note last week about the word "maverick," which Republicans and the news media repeatedly used to… Read more »
Try a Triangle Grammar Guide quiz
Today’s quiz contains various grammar, usage, punctuation or spelling problems. Try the quiz and leave a comment if you wish…. Read more »