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Tag: Dord

March 24, 2021 From The Editor's Desk / Grammar / Language / Words

Typos and other reasons to double check everything

“We take in sensory information and combine it with what we expect, and we extract meaning . . . When

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May 11, 2016 Language / Science / Word Wednesday / Writing

Word Wednesday: Dord, the mysterious ghost word

The Mysterious “Dord”   In 1934, the word “Dord“ appeared in the Second Edition of Webster’s New International Dictionary on page 771, between “dorcopsis”

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