The question 'Who's ahead in the polls?' is a delicious and savoury pun, because a poll  is a head. Or it was. Shakespeare ...

I have been considering the word cover . This is partly because The Etymologicon, The Horologicon and The Elements of Eloquence have be...

You are probably about to buy a dead tree and put it up in your living room. This is, if you ponder it, odd behaviour on your part. What...

Nostalgia was once a very serious disease. It could be fatal, especially to the Swiss. Nostalgia is a Greek term and literally translates...

I was listening to Moon River and noticed the lines: Waiting round the bend My huckleberry friend And it occurred to me that I didn...

The post will be about rude words. Well, rude compound words to be precise, but they're still very rude. If you are an infant or heavil...

The ancient Greeks had the peculiar idea that the universe was very well ordered. How they came to this conclusion is unclear, but it invol...