The word ‘wife’
I found out yesterday that someone has been messing with my Wikipedia entry. Kelley changed from being my partner to being my…
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Froot bat: the psychology of vowels
Discussion in our house last night, just before we fell asleep: “He’s…hmmn, I was going to say batshit crazy but that’s not…
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The BBC tells us that the oldest words in English have been identified. (Via Heroic Age.) I feel as though I should…
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I learnt a new word the other day: interrobang. It means ‘?!’ Apparently, printers call an exlamation point a bang, so if…
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From: Sly An excerpt (from And Now We Are Going to Have a Party): “I imagined the officer nodding self-importantly and reporting…
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