Now's a good time — if you have the bandwidth — to touch base about a pain point that's evidently bothering many white-collar workers: office jargon. The business buzzwords (or corporate cliches, if ...

I remember being overwhelmed at all the unfamiliar things I had to learn as a newbie businessperson. There were so many procedures to keep track of, and people and departments to memorize! Every day I ...

Spend much time in corporate America and you're likely to encounter any number of mind-numbing terms that require some translation. The first few times I heard "boil the ocean," for example, I had no ...

The M EV1 is, perhaps, the exception that proves the rule, in the sense that by not conforming the existing pattern it helps clarify that pattern that otherwise exists. Photo: Richard Butler The very ...

If you ever get confused about tech jargon (or want to clear up said confusion), a new tool from Google's Jigsaw incubator and the Washington Post may help. The "Sideways Dictionary" uses analogies ...

It is no secret that the sensitive grammarian leads a deeply troubled life. Each daily excursion brings a new threat: a misplaced apostrophe here; a dangling modifier there; an advertisement extolling ...

The English Journal is a journal of ideas for English language arts teachers in junior and senior high schools and middle schools. EJ presents information on the teaching of writing and reading, ...