September 2015

In the beginning The alarm, the widely and rightly praised novel by Paul Kingsnorth on the Norman Conquest, the narrator laments his losses. Once a privileged English landowner, Buccmaster has watched the French invaders…

Photo courtesy of flickr.com It's a common expression: difficult dilemma. But that's also wrong — at least in the grammatical sense since a dilemma is, by definition, difficult. This is what we call a redundant phrase, and they are…