mind your language
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Poll: Potato Scallop Or Potato Cake?
6If you were on Twitter in 2014, you doubtlessly remember the Great Potato Dialect War that waged across Australia’s state borders for weeks on end. Like most wars, it got ugly, and there were no clear winners on either side. Now, interstate hostilities have flared up again via a spate of snarky game reviews on…
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Stop Saying ‘Rate Of Speed’
It seems like every time a police officer describes a crash involving a car that exceeded the speed limit, he or she says the vehicle was travelling at a “high rate of speed.” This is a bad phrase and everyone needs to stop using it.
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The Etymology Of ‘Dude’
It seems like everyone has different head canon for the word “dude”. Did it come from England? Was it about drifters in the Wild West? Thanks to a 2013 study, we have a better idea.
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Devil’s Advocate: In Defense Of The Oxford Comma
Do you go to the store for “cupcakes, vanilla, and chocolate” or “cupcakes, vanilla and chocolate”? There’s a long-running debate over whether it’s proper to include that last comma in a list. Lifehacker’s policy is to eschew it, but we have to admit that the so-called ‘Oxford comma’ does makes things clearer on occasion –…