Words for Time and Frequency
Frequency words look interchangeable until you ask them three questions: Does it stop? Does it come back? Does it come back on a schedule? Six common words give six different answers. Abrupt, chronic, continual, intermittent, periodic, and recurrent each fix one piece of the timing. Learn what each one pins down, and equally important, learn […]
Words for Thinking, Learning, and Communication
A speaker implies. A listener infers. Those two verbs describe opposite ends of the same exchange, and mixing them up is one of the most common errors in careful English — common enough that editors have been complaining about it for a century. The larger point is that words about thinking and communicating are not […]