And Lowdham in Nottinghamshire tonight. Link here . Last night, in Portsmouth, I was told of the word yinkle. A yinkle is, apparently, a ...

Just a quick reminder that I'm talking in Portsmouth at six this evening. Link here .

A calorie is the amount of energy required to raise 1 gram of water by 1 degree Celsius. Or at least, that's the small calorie. The lar...

The unchangeable tragedy of all human life is that, however long you study the restaurant menu, when the food arrives everybody else...

Just a few notices today. First, there's a tumblr account for the Etymologicon and Horologicon and you can tumble to it here. Secon...

Anthos was the Greek for flower. Thus Antheios meant flowery. And thus the goddess Hera, who was often associated with flowers, got the b...

For those of you intent upon seeing my ugly face there is a feed of me talking about some strange words on SBS, the Australian television n...