A by-way is a little path aside from the main road. A by-product is a less important product aside from one's main aim. So I had always...

For as long as I can remember I have known the old drinker's rhyme: Beer and wine: Feeling fine. Wine and beer: Oh dear. There...

A twinter is a two-year-old cow. It's a dialect term that is a shortening of two-winters . A two-year-old sheep, on the other hand, ...

Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh has this to say about kippers: Adam ate some breakfast. No kipper, he reflected, is ever as good as it sm...

It's a little odd that even at the finest of Indian restaurants you can't order a curried favour. In fact, currying favour gets odd...

Some words pop up long before you think they would. The periodical Nature  mentioned a  marvellous maze of internetted connections  in 1883...

A couple of weeks ago I was in a pub. There is nothing unusual about that. The pub had two beers available on tap, and on the taps were thos...