All about Words

Writers love words.

And, if you write and love words, you need a subscription to the weekly email newsletter published in Great Britain, Michael Quinion's WORLDWIDEWORDS.

The newsletter is erudite, informative, and free. Quinion normally features a topical word of the week -- something unusual in print -- weird words, recently noted use or misuse of words, a question and answer, feedback, notes, and comments, and a feature called Sic!

In Sic! you'll find abuse of the language in the news and elsewhere ...

Elizabeth Cowan reports that last Saturday's Ottawa Citizen ran a story on a traffic accident involving a local sports celebrity, who "got out of the car donning sunglasses and a fresh white suit." Ms Cowan hopes that was the newspaper's error.

You will find a mechanism for subscribing to the newsletter on Quinion's site. Note that Quinion is presently on vacation, and the news letter will resume in August. You can, however, get a taste of his fare at the WORLDWIDEWORDS archive.