WORD botches are music to my ears, and over the years I've arranged five anthologies of fluffs, flubs, goofs, gaffes, blunders, boners ... well, you get the idea. As a word-bethumped language guy, I ...

One of the fringe benefits of being an English or history teacher is receiving the occasional jewel of a student blooper in an essay. The original classroom blunder probably dates back to the day that ...