Alan G. Brown

Let it be known that I have no sympathy for people who deliberately attempt to download free books from dubious websites, while suspecting t...

Strange book titles: Experiments on the spoilage of tomato ketchup Old age, its cause and prevention People who don’t know they’re dead ...

Malapropisms are the misuse of words, usually due to substituting words that resemble the ones that should have been used. The word itself d...

Anyone want to substitute Eccles’ name in the Goon show? Eccles: I resign! You speak to my secretary! You can't talk to a government mi...

Use of incredible or incredulous can sometimes be confused. Incredulous shows disbelief, as in: his explanation left her with an incredulou...

Old documents always use the word ‘divers’, which is still sometimes used instead of ‘diverse’. However, they do have different meanings. Di...

Do you feel that a scene in some movies ruin the effect? Some movies seem to be made up of ‘blocks’, one of which always deters one from vie...