According to a beautiful sentence on the BBC website : Almost spontaneously, the Libyan city of Benghazi has been galvanised into action....

A passiuncle is an insignificant or trivial passion. The word was invented by De Quincey to describe those emotions whose exercise exhausts...

In Italian, the suffix - etto means little . So Giovanni Canal, because he was the son of the painter Bernard Canal, was known as Canalett...

On the same subject as  yesterday's post , Colonel Gaddafi has written several poems and stories. Many political leaders have heard and...

In 1989 Radio Tehran reported a major breakthrough in Shakespeare scholarship. The breakthrough had been made by none other than Colonel Ga...

A Word A Day , has just put up the word  fluke . Fluke has several meanings: it can be a funny little fish, the point of an anchor, or a st...

Here is a picture of Goldsmith's Hall in the City of London. Why is that of interest? Because once upon a time, if you had a bit of go...