All this week, people are greeting each other with wishes for a happy new year. While there is a certain rote quality for many as they say it, I also believe that for many of us the greeting reflects ...
Hopefully a copy editor won’t remove the poorly chosen word that I’ve stuck at the beginning of this sentence. Hopefully is an adverb that ought to be used only to modify a verb. So why do we keep ...
All this week, people are greeting each other with wishes for a happy new year. While there is a certain rote quality for many as they say it, I also believe that for many of us the greeting reflects ...
Is there anyone who has not wished upon a star, made a wish before blowing out the candles on a birthday cake or crossed fingers as an added incentive for the gods of good fortune to smile upon us?