Essays

These first essays are meant to be amusing, despite the fact that they all have to do with grammar and related subjects:

COMPRISE and COMPOSE, including a glance at CONSIST and, oddly enough, a cookie recipe

The story on LIE and LAY, with an explication of the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs

On the Importance of Readability

WHO and WHOM: Which, and does it matter?

King Canute and False Etymologies

On the Erosion of Idiom

The next all fall into a category that can only be described as “miscellaneous”:

When You Die

The Desert Island Game

Word Fun

High Tea, High Dudgeon

The Episcopal Church Welcomes You

A Fable That Only Appears to Be About the Holocaust