Word of the day: boss-A
Boss-A! A word of my childhood.
Changing the language of business
Against cliché and clutter
Word of the day: namby-pamby
From 18th-century poetry wars
Overheard
"Disincluded"
Need worked
A regionalism, "need + past participle"
Word of the day: artificer
As in James Joyce: "fabulous artificer"
Bandbox
The word of the day
Rock the mic
Who was the first to rock the mic? The O.E.D. has the answer.
The 'sation
Half a cellphone conversation
The OED siphon
"Siphon," a wrong definition
An Illinois coinage
Blagodoccio
David Foster Wallace’s dictionary
Words circled
Word of the day: lave
Good for word golf
"Reasons Why I Am Not Successful"
Link to a funny list
Appetizing
Adjective? Noun?
Sunny intervals
Sunnier than "intervals of sun"
Huffington Post, misleading headline
"Aftershock"
Bagatelle, bag of shells
More on "a mere bagatelle" and "a mere bag of shells"
A mere bag of poloponies
A mere bagatelle, a mere bag of shells
Inappropriate metaphor
"The nation's midsection"
Fifty-seven business clichés
A poster
Domestic comedy
On the word "nut"
Words I can live without
"Craft" (as a verb), and others.
Reinventing the wheel
A metaphor takes on new meaning
Whisky, hold the "e"
One Scottish politician mocks another for misspelling "whisky"
Singular "they"
"I found myself yesterday realizing that I can make a little room in my life for singular they, seeing as I had already made such room without realizing it."
David Levinson Wilk crossword record
Twelve 15-letter answers in a daily puzzle.
"And a cool four thousand, Pip!"
Why does "cool" describe money?
“The circus tent is open”
From Wikipedia, euphemisms for an unzipped fly
"All time"
"The words 'all time' play such an odd role in pop culture."