Book Sale! Also, the Latest Blog Post from Paul Brians + A Couple of Favorites

Paul Brians’ Common Errors in English Usage is on sale through the end of the year—just $15 with free domestic shipping (US). Looking for something a little different? Far from the Madding Gerund is also on sale through the year’s end.

Here are a couple of old favorites from Common Errors in English Usage:

dieties/deities
This one is always good for a laugh. The gods are deities, after the Latin deus, meaning “god.”



scone/sconce
If you fling a jam-covered biscuit at the wall and it sticks, the result may be a “wall scone”; but if you are describing a wall-mounted light fixture, the word you want is sconce.

 

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Paul Brians’ most recent blog post muses on various uses for “mac.”
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We bid farewell to the podcast some time ago, but we discussed today’s featured cartoons in Episode 113: Giving Thanks for the Book.