Lessons From the Dictionary: The Many Moods of ‘Humor’

Including one embarrassing misuse too many people commit

Photo by Tamara Gak on Unsplash

Many years ago, I studied journalism at the University of Minnesota. It was (still is) a school with a pretty high-powered teaching and research hospital. In a crisis, patients were flown there from rural parts of the state. The paramedics who jumped on and off the helicopters…