Cooking.com presented "Top 10 Corned Beef Recipes for St. Patty's Day" last week, and at least one Concord restaurant also implied that the day of green beer was intended to honor St. Patricia. They should have been advertising St. Paddy's Day, from Padraig, a form of the name familiar to sports fans… 0

"At that time," wrote the Insider on hurling (in the "Hurling with Wolves," March 8 issue), "the Wolves were the only team comprised of born-and-bred Americans in the league." Here's an opportunity for the Grammarnator to be a stickler.Language purists, you see, would insist that comprise is the wrong word here. As the once-revered Strunk & White advised in The Elements of Style… 0

"Only the dead have seen the end of war." Although a Google search will provide numerous links for this line to an album by an Oregon bank named Hellshock, its origin is older, but probably not as old as Plato, to whom it is attributed as the epigraph in the film Black Hawk Down, where I first encountered it. No one… 0

The Grammarnator has recently had difficulty sending e-mail to The Insider, but the problem was solved last week. Here are a few belated items for which his fans have no doubt been waiting.One devoted reader submits this quandary: A salesperson says, "You get a rebate for free with that." Is this correct?… 0