Just a quick one today: jumentous . Jumentous is a nice-sounding word. If you call somebody jumentous they might even thank you. However, ...

The Londoners among you, will need only one word on a day like this: apricate, which means to bask in the sun. Londoners rarely get a chanc...

If the sight of a jogger jogging in the park jogs your memory, that is thorougly appropriate. To jog originally meant to jerk. So if your m...

The following is from the London Review of Books . It's a rather recondite discussion of the historical existence of Troy and its relat...

It's always rather pleasant to watch a word shift in meanings until it means the opposite of itself. Such a word is manufactured, which...

It's always rather amusing when a word once blameless now has a rude meaning, and a double example of this is dicked in the nob , which...

As a group, the Nine Muses get a lot of words: museum (a shrine to the Muses), m osaic (a work of the Muses),  music , bemused (devoted to...