If you are spiflicated you are flabbergasted, flummoxed, caught or confounded. Or as the Captain's Clerk says in Lady Eureka : "...

Right, the Inky Fool is now on Facebook , and socially networking and all that sort of electronically-amicable jazz. If I've got this r...

There's a fantastic article on sentences and how they can be constructed over at the FT. I cannot recommend it energetically enough. Im...

A little note on Darwin. When we think of the adjective fit  we are inclined to think of someone in jogging shorts and other such hideousne...

Benjamin Franklin was far more fun than you might think. Not only did he write a learned tract called Fart Proudly , he also produced, in h...

The wonderful things you find in dictionaries. This from Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811): Welch Rabbit [i.e. a Welc...

Have a look at this paragraph from the opening chapter of the 1939 novel Gadsby  by Ernest Vincent Wright, and see if you can tell what...