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A Few Random Thoughts of Dubious Importance

My mind tends to ramble a bit. Actually, a lot. Here’s a few examples of random thoughts about the American variant of the English language that have occurred to me recently. With all the golf tournaments going on lately, I came to realize that in one particular way, how we talk about golf differs from…
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Metric System Revisited

I’ve posted about the metric system before, and now I want to revisit the topic because I think it’s important to the United States. The US is one of very few countries that don’t use the metric system of measurements for most of the common functions we have. We measure distances in feet and yards…
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