I’m hoping someone out there has heard the expression “Boom Chicago” and can verify that a) I didn’t dream it and b) it means what I think it means.?

Well, tries to.

I’m hoping you can settle a grammar discussion for me. What’s the accepted rule for pluralizing words that come from other languages?

I have a small child who loves the Berenstain Bears and we read them over and over. The phrase below seems incorrect, but I’m not a grammar expert so I’d like to get a definitive …

impeccadillo. n. combination of “impeccable” (perfect) and “peccadillo” (a small offense) 1. A small and well-executed object. (“That tiny cup of vichysoisse with truffle oil that they serve at Soigne is such an impeccadillo.”) 2. …

I guess the “2” in “CB2” doesn’t extend to the Ms in the word “accommodate.”

I’m hoping you can clarify a language question — I can’t find anything about it in Garner, nor in Strunk and White. Google offered me some explanations, but they weren’t very helpful. And I don’t …

Welcome back to Out With The Crowd, and our first foray into the National League. Joining us is TN reader and Colorado fan Leigh Bingham; we discussed Jimenez v. Tulo, pantsless mascots, porous defense, and …

Doddsie, who put propriety above everything else, had never forgotten nor forgiven Elias Renthal’s reverberating fart on his exit from the Butterfield nearly eight years earlier, after he had been kicked out of the hallowed …

From some of the same people who brought you “hew,” a handy portmanteau of “hee” and “ew,” comes this new coinage, compliments of the Couch Baron.
hargh. interj. Combination of “hee” and “argh,” used to express amused …