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“Through my most grievious fault”
Since the most recent changes to the Roman Missal almost every Sunday we’ve been saying: through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault; … I’ve noticed that in our congregation almost everyone says “grievious” as opposed to “grievous.” I knew that sometimes speakers insert an “-i-” into words like “grievous” and “mischievous.”…
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Bandicoot Cabbagepatch
Did you know clicking the link that this post was going to be about Benedict Cumberbatch? Gretchen McCulloch, a graduate student in linguistics at McGill University and blogger at All Things Linguistic, explains the Benedict Cumberbatch name generator here and here and why some of the names generated work and some don’t. I admit some…