U and W were even added to the English alphabet—is among the form’s most famous examples. A tautogram is an extreme form of alliteration in which all of the words in a sentence or phrase begin ...

My post 30 Incorrectly Used Words That Can Make You Look Bad resulted in readers providing a number of other examples of misused words, and here are some of them. Once again I’ve picked words ...

(The word “onomatopoeia” is also used to describe the words themselves, rather than just the process.) Examples of onomatopoeia are the types of words you can imagine inside a colorful bubble ...

Simply put, this is the name applied to good words going bad. Consider, for example, everyone’s favorite cartoon rodent. Mickey Mouse made his debut in a seven-minute short titled “Steamboat ...

Other bad sentences are more complicated ... took part in the eating.” Some words are born to be adjectives, but you can make them into nouns anyway. For example the adjective “rude ...

but I say that’s bullshit”), or an abusive obscenity that ends a career or marriage (no examples here; I want to stay employed and married). Taxonomies of bad words—such as the ...