When my internet service was out, I had to look up a word in an actual dictionary (!), and it reminded me of elementary school, when we learned that L is in the center of the dictionary. Then that flashback made me want to go out and buy one of those big first-grade pencils.
Tetanus would seem scarier if they still called it lockjaw.
I find it confusing when someone writes something is happening “as we speak,” because if they’re writing, we’re not speaking. And I always have to wonder if it's happening right then, or back when they were writing.
Why do people say tuna-fish? You never hear anybody say “I’m having a turkey-bird sandwich.”
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