(The Guardian 26/9/2014) From genocide and kamikaze to radar and spam, the second world war had a dramatic effect on English
If our most-used words are anything to go by, we spend too much time on Google and are obsessed with smartphones. Is language that transparent?
VERBING nouns annoys a lot of people.
The question might seem easy.
‘If you could edit your past, what would you change?’ ‘I’d get rid of all the commas’ – Peter Carey A misplaced comma can provide hours of fun on the web but sabotage the meaning of a sentence.
