I've always like The Atlas of True Names , which produces etymological maps, each place marked with the original meaning of the name. I...

I've just got back from Majorca, where, as I don't speak Spanish, I spent much time attempting to read menus by guessing the etymol...

Just a very quick link to The Virtual Linguist who informs us that today (a Bank Holiday in England) is St Lubbock's Day. So known bec...

It appears that what I consider an annoying Monday afternoon , a frustrating hour that can be forgotten after a good sherry, is now interna...

I've just come back from the Edinburgh Book Festival, where I had a lovely Scottish time drinking whisky and balancing books on my hea...

I've been reading Netymology by Tom Chatfield. It's all about the etymology of computer terms. Thus I have discovered that trolls d...

Because of all the attention this post is getting, I ought to point out that I was not intending to disclose some outrageous Orwellian con...