I've just discovered that Independence Day is not simply a Will Smith film. It is, in fact, the day on which nobody must be hanged. T...

I have before me the particulars of a flat (or, if you must, apartment) which, apparently, "oozes charm." Is that possible. Coul...

The winners of the Bulwer-Lytton prize for the worst opening of a novel have been announced . Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a nineteenth centur...

So you're designing a terribly secret weapon and you have to think of a name for it. If you give it a name that actually describes the ...

This is what a tenterhook looks like. Don't pretend you knew. You take some cloth. You wash it. You fasten it to a wooden frame called...

I was once reading what I thought was an utterly awful novel. It was only when I got to page 14 and found the word "drugstore" th...

Zwodder is a dialect word from Somerset and means a drowsy, foolish frame of mind . It's a fine word because I imagine that, with a sm...