There's been a "mass exodus of Syrians," one of NPR.org's headlines declared earlier this month. President Obama said in August that the U.S. should boost domestic energy production and rely less on ...

Suppose that you hold an option that must be exercised “within 30 days prior to the expiration of the option”. Does this mean that you must exercise the option no later than thirty days before the ...

In the “Ghostbusters” movies, the eponymous heroes blast ghosts and otherworldly beings with their proton packs, and the ghosts explode into a mess of slimy green ghost goo. This goo is called ...

Here's a word that a search indicates may never have been said on NPR: "pleonasm." But we and other news outlets put pleonasms on the air and on the Web every day. What is a pleonasm? "The use of more ...

Last week we discussed pleonasms - the use of redundant words, usually in two-word phrases where one of the words is totally superfluous because it merely conveys a meaning that is already implicit in ...

Each week The Sun’s John McIntyre presents a moderately obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar — another brick to add to the wall of your working vocabulary. This week’s word: ...

In the “Ghostbusters” movies, the eponymous heroes blast ghosts and otherworldly beings with their proton packs, and the ghosts explode into a mess of slimy green ghost goo. This goo is called ...