There’s actually a simple explanation for the whole flammable-versus-inflammable confusion.

From David Lynch to Queen Elizabeth I, these folks achieved a type of lexical immortality when their names became adjectives.

Amazingly, “THAT’S NOT COUNTRY,” has been bandied about in the music industry as early as the 1950s! So how does radio respond?

I remember Guy Keleny, my predecessor as author of this column, once tried to argue that plethora means a harmful excess of ...