BACK TO BASICS
Lately at work, there has been a lot of talk about gossiping. And I can completely understand the need to limit the amount of gossip flying around (since it really isn’t good for the morale of the employees) but let’s not get out of hand here. There is gossip and there is venting. So again, [...]
IS ‘FREER’ EVEN A WORD?
A few days ago my co-worker asked if ‘freer’ was even a word, because being an American, she was convinced such thing does not exist in the English (or should I say ‘American’?) language… This one little question takes me back to my thoughts of how little Americans really know about their own language. The [...]
WAIT ON OR WAIT FOR?
As much as I realize that there are many differences between British English and American English, this one expression annoys the heck out of me! Most Americans (I’d even say nearly all of them because, to tell you the truth, I haven’t quite met one, who would use it correctly) say ‘wait on’ when they [...]