The changing English language

[FierceKitty]

He's got a real knack for choosing clear and interesting illustrations, as I remember.

[d_Guy]

He does indeed and does so with style and humor.
e.g. (found while looking up "humour" which did not have an entry)
HOWLERS are such schoolboys' (and schoolgirls') errors of fact as arise from misapprehension or confusion of sense. They are catachrestic or, more often, the result of confusing  a word with a word similar to it in form or pronunciation. 'The bystanders expressed deep sorrow at the passing of the beer', 'Histology is the dry bones of history', ' A conjunction is where railway lines cross.' Sometimes an epigram is unintentionally achieved, as in 'Elizabeth was known as the Virgin Queen. She was a great success as a queen.'

[FierceKitty]

A personal fave, reported by one of my old lecturers, was "Macduff was not born through the usual channels."

[d_Guy]

 

Not to over do but from a different source, a quote from his book on punctuation regarding the use of colons:
"To be mulcted of our money and mutilated of our property is serious enough: to be deprived of our colon would be intolerable."