Mixed Grill

Earlier on, we started the countdown to the 50 clichés or hackneyed words and phrases the purists and masters of the language instruct us to avoid “like the plague”, insisting...

Quoting one of the language masters, “below is a list of 50 clichés which are still in daily use despite the fact that their edges are becoming increasingly blunt”. Terse...

I struggled not to deviate or transgress, not at all, from our countdown to the 50 most harassed and misused clichés in English to talk about other things as it...

It appears the more we discuss about the fussiness of clichés in modern English, the larger they loom. But the masters and purists of the language of mass communication, and...

Owing to the exigency of the time, we have to digress for now; away from our countdown to the 50 most abused clichés or hackneyed words still making the rounds...

The last time we did a general introduction of "clichés still in vogue despite their blunt edges." In between my write ups, I would break and do a serial on...

As earlier highlighted in the first part of our discussion, the word cliché comes from the French verb clincher, meaning to make a metal casting of a stereotype. According to...

Group it among the Nigerian writers’ albatross, the un-English statement, ‘upliftment’ has gained so much currency in the recent times that apart from being freely mouthed or bandied about by...

Lest we forget where the conversation on the topic: “Should colloquialism go along standard English?”, ended with the beginning of the 2023 Liturgical Year for the Catholic Church, precisely on...

The question one may ask, is jargon of utmost necessity when shaping the language for the layman to grasp easily? The answer is, ‘yes’ and capital ‘NO!’ One may accuse...