Sometimes I just like to sit around and contemplate a word's original meaning. Undermining , for example, is an old military technique ...

Quomodocunquizing is an adjective that means, according to the OED, "That makes money in any possible way". It is therefore a Ter...

Anton Chekhov once said : If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise...

About two thousand years ago a perfectly respectable lady called Elizabeth became pregnant and her husband lost his voice. He stayed silent...

Once upon a time a slogan was a battle-cry . When ancient Gaelic warriors raised their kilts and ran into battle they would shout the name ...

According to the news , a dirty poem has been discovered with John Milton's name attached. The poem runs: Have you not in a Chimney s...

Often, as I write this blog, I lose all sense of meaning. There I am, blogging away about one particular word until I've written it so ...