By Curtis Honeycutt In the “Ghostbusters” movies, the eponymous heroes blast ghosts and otherworldly beings with their proton packs, and the ghosts explode into a
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The best of both (hybrid) words
By Curtis Honeycutt Our family bought a minivan last year. With child number three on the way, we needed more room for car seats and
What’s my name again? Explaining pseudonyms
By Curtis Honeycutt Names hold enormous power. I’ve always been impressed by people who go by names with only one word — Cher, Beyoncé, Prince,
Throwing the book at Captain Hook
By Curtis Honeycutt Before I slash at Captain Hook’s character, I want to say this: if I could grow a twisty mustache like Captain Hook,
Baby got back slang
By Curtis Honeycutt As I approach the magical age of 40, I’m supposedly getting to the peak of my life (and then it’s all downhill
If you squint, it almost makes sense
By Curtis Honeycutt I didn’t wear glasses until I was 19. As an up-and-coming visionary word nerd, I had never thought I needed corrective lenses.
Will ChatGPT replace human writers?
By Curtis Honeycutt Welcome to the year of AI content creation. From writing to artwork created by artificial intelligence software, the internet is embracing this
It’s not as bad as it sounds
By Curtis Honeycutt I’ve been accused of acting my shoe size more times than I can count. I’m OK with that. Why is that, you
A primer on nice-sounding words and names
By Curtis Honeycutt There’s a subreddit page I like to visit called r/eyebleach. It essentially gives your eyes a break from scrolling through cynical and
‘Goblin mode’ named Oxford English Dictionary’s Word of the Year 2022
By Curtis Honeycutt Now the Oxford English Dictionary is at it. In my previous column, I reported that “gaslighting” has been named the Word of