I was recently discussing pronouns with a close friend. (Don't you just wish you were my friend? Constant conversational parties around here. PRONOUNS. WOOT.) It started with a discussion of gender-neutral third person singular pronouns - ...
Emojis as words – Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year
Last week, Oxford Dictionaries announced the 'Face with Tears of Joy' emoji as its 2015 Word of the Year (for the US and the UK). OUTRAGEOUS, huh? Except not really. For what it's worth, I don't emoji. I'm not cool enough. (Remember when ...
Practical grammactical: punctuation part II
Hello there! Welcome to the beginning of what might become a new series at emhawkerblog. I call it the beginning, but really, this is the second post (hence the 'part II' in the title). The first post went live about half an hour ago over at ...