The Phrase You're Probably Misusing

Thursday, June 21, 2012 The Phrase You're Probably Misusing Hi, y'all! Zoë here. This week, I wrote my column about a phrase that is often misused: "begging the question." People typically confuse it with "raising the question." But that's simply incorrect. Already know how to use "begging the question?" Or perhaps you don't care much about that phrase? Check out some of my other columns! There's one on "it is what it is," the filler word "like" and also on the misuse of the word "literally." Have any suggestions for words or phrases I should tackle in future columns? Let me know in the comments section of my post! 'Anna Karenina' Trailer: Keira Knightley Brings Tolstoy To Big Screen (VIDEO) Amazing Sculptures Made Out Of Books A German Woman's Haunting Letter To Hitler The Top Revelations In New Obama Biography Library Worker Sentenced To Jail For Stealing Overdue Book Fines BLOG POSTS David Haviland: 11 Myths From The History Books Received wisdom often leaves much to be desired. Here are a few examples of the myths and follies that make up much of our popular understanding of history. David Morley: Writing Tips: 6 Ways To Be A Better Wordsmith Imagination needs to be wired through intelligence; intelligence to be wired through imagination - through the practice of creative writing at every level of education and within every field of knowledge. W. Scott Poole: Why Historians Should Be Vampire Hunters Historians shouldn't worry that the general public might decide that Abraham Lincoln spent his free time staking and decapitating vampires. Molly Raphael: Publishers Long Overdue in Offering Libraries eBook Titles To the surprise of many readers, public library e-book "shelves" now sport gaping holes. The Witness by Nora Roberts? Unseen. The Lost Years by Mary Higgins Clark? Missing. Drop Dead Healthy by A.J. Jacobs? DOA. Mark Morford: A Summer Reading List to Die For Do you have a summer reading list? My list is, strangely, almost identical to the reading list I had last summer. Which is similar to the one from the year before, and the year before, and so on, all the way back to something like, oh, 2002.

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