Skippers
Sign-language gloves don’t translate
on the back foot
The idiom is from cricket, but I would think it would also apply to soccer/football and baseball, and maybe hockey?
Identifying languages by their writing
I recently read a couple articles on how to identify many languages by how they are written. Harbeck offers good, often cheeky mnemonics for recognizing languages based on Roman lettering (Western and European languages), as well as Asian, Middle Eastern, Cyrillic, and North African languages. Helpful, although I would like to see tips for identifying […]
Prodigal
Not everything usage that sounds wrong to me is objectively wrong, but I think this one is.