The John Larrysson Articles about Words



Note: Vocabulary is a set of words not a synonym for words. Too many people misuse the word vocabulary to try to sound more important.

  • Counting Words (3 of 3) A Dozen Other Counting Words
  • Counting Words (2 of 3) The Multiplicatives and So On
  • Counting Words (1 of 3) Cardinals, Ordinals and Prefixes
  • "I Could Care Less"
  • Discourse Markers: When words don't mean anything
  • Common Titles – Mr Surgeon
  • Common Titles – Mr
  • Common Titles – Mrs, Miss or Ms
  • Do Eskimos really have one hundred words for snow?
  • Nice
  • This is the year A.D. 2013 (or it was when I wrote this column)
  • Words for Cows
  • Last Names and Family Names
  • An Unsung Hero
  • Words Commonly Confused in Hong Kong
  • Non–Literal Literally
  • Which Floor Is It?
  • Octopuses, Octopi, Octopodes
  • 26 Alphabets
  • Anniversaries
  • How much is a ...
  • The 3 most dangerous words in English
  • Married maids

  • Metaphors & Special Phrases