Tag Archives: oxford
High-Pfalutin’
Oxford University Press'sAcademic Insights for the Thinking World
By Anatoly Liberman
July 16th 2025
We know t...
Funny stuff for Pseudo-Literate Snobs
Consider yourself schooled
• An Oxford comma walks into a bar where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, a...
What’s in a Name?
In the Writing Burrow
Whatever comes into my addled, shrinking brain.
MARGARET ATWOOD
DEC 13, 2023
I was born in th...
The Oxford Comma
Today's selection -- from Rebel with a Clause by Ellen Jovin. In her very clever book on grammar Ellen Jovin brings to the page her exp...