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From the archives in 1989, Toby Howard looks at the role of ritual and folklore, and asks whether we should separate them from superstition
College enrollments in the humanities have declined, even more than the general fall in the numbers attending college. Why?
The fifth edition of Garner’s Modern English Usage has recently been published by OUP. I was happy to talk to Bryan Garner—who was declared a “genius” by the late David Foster Wallace—about what it means to write a usage dictionary.
Weather in northwest Orange County for Monday, September 19, 2022
I’m intrigued by the not-so-great debate over the pronunciation of caramel, which is instructive both socially and linguistically. Is the word pronounced with that second a, as caramel or without it, as carmel?