I have very little to say today, except that pot-fury is the excitement brought on by inebriation and ale-passion is an old word meaning h...

Merdurinous means composed of dung and urine, and if you can't find a use for that word, you have too few enemies. Merd ur inous is p...

Way back in the mists and fogs of time, (before standardisation of measurement) weights and distances and everything else would vary from c...

Not of this blog, but of the dictionary. It suddenly occurred to me to wonder what was right at the back of the OED. So I pulled out volume...

I always seem to be pointing out phrases that come from the Bible, but where as I do them one by one, this chap has combined one hundred su...

And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from t...

Here's a little bit of poetry by E.E. Cummings (corrected for punctuation and missing capitals) Love is more thicker than forget, Mo...