"Gobsmacked!" relies heavily on the Google Books Ngram Viewer, a tool for measuring the "frequency of words across millions ...

If my English major doesn’t tip anyone off, I’d say my go-to question of “What’s your favorite book?” does (which means I should maybe come up with better questions, but that’s another story).

Dictionary of Fine Distinctions merits study at your leisure. Burnstein describes his little volume as “Nuances, Niceties, ...