Linsey-woolsey
A word from the past
To corpse
A bit of theatrical slang
A noisy little "privilege"
Unusual meaning of the word "privilege"
Shopping by letters
What begins with a q?
The kitchen shink
Harold Bloom finds meaning in what I think is a typo.
Oops
"Attention Defecate Disorder"
"Educe" in Proust
The verb "to educe" in an interesting role
100 words
That every high school grad should know
No pants
Funny ambiguity in a linguistics text
Euphemism
From Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day : The Word of the Day for May 1 is: euphemism \YOO-fuh-miz-um\ noun: the substitution of an agreeable...
Riparian
From Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day : The Word of the Day for April 21 is: riparian \ruh-PAIR-ee-un\ adjective: relating to or living or ...
Does anyone still say "fly"?
I was wondering . The answer, it seems, is "Yes." See here: Hot Hot Heat: A graphical dissertation on the number one song in America ( Vill...
Doped
character recognition fun
Barfs
Google asks user to type "barfs" as character recognition word
Dine?
language words
Navel-gazing with the Greeks
omphaloskepsis
Ballyhoo
I was watching an episode of Ralph J. Gleason's television series Jazz Casual (1962) featuring the singer and pianist Jimmy Rushing, who wa...
Ambrosia and the deathless ones
The word ambrosia and its childhood associations
Another word from the Greek
It's "symposium."
Readers and writers
From a supercomputing glossary
Sign
"NO PERSONNEL CHECKS"
Rhadamanthine
It's Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day : rhadamanthine \rad-uh-MAN-thun\ adjective often capitalized : rigorously strict or just Example...
Drawing-room
What's it mean anyway?
_L
How do you say 50,000 in Roman numerals?
Madeleine
The word and the famous passage in Swann's Way
Avast
the meaning of the word
Lotusland
The meaning of the word.
Misspelling
"debri"
Water-slide, syllables added to pool
A pool becomes an "aquatic center"
Revenant
The word, its meanings, its associations