Skip to content

Sonya Mathews

Wordsmith; Jester

  • Home
  • Jokes
  • Wordbook
  • About
  • Contact
  • Instagram
  • Tiktok
  • Bluesky
  • Facebook

Linguistics

The Misunderstanding of “have got”

A hand drawn picture of a walrus in a library sitting in a chair and reading a dictionary.

Tolkien, walrus (n.): how a word shaped a writer

Is “fill in” a British verb?

I goes to work: subject-verb agreement

The new fanciness of “don” and “doff”

The Unjust Vilification of “ain’t”

There’s No Such Thing as Standard English

What is Raciolinguistics?

First recorded instance of the taboo word fuck

Irish English or Hiberno English?

Portfolio navigation

Previous