On Words and Up Words
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37 Ways To Tell Someone They’re Full Of It
The widow (1861–1897), vintage cat portrait illustration by L. Prang & Co.
To say that a juggins is a gordelpus is as uncontroversial as pointing out that a guffoon is cakey like a nocky boy, but finding a way to say either of these things...
These Common Animals Have Some Very Cool Alter Egos
Dormouse, by Georg August Goldfuss
You know that thing where you and six of your best friends are trying to escape from a pagan emperor and you fall asleep in a cave and the emperor walls you in and you all wake up 208 years later during t...
When I Found Out This Positive Adjective Was Originally a Comparative, I Was SHOOK
“Three jockeys and their horses jumping over a hurdle.” Chromolithograph after J. F. Herring Sr.
Look, I’ve been sitting on this one for a while, and I just haven’t quite been able to figure out the right format to tell people about it. So...
The Definitive Ranking of Forgotten Microsoft Office Assistants (Excluding Clippy)
His name (for the pedantically inclined) is not Clippy. But this is not about Clippit, and it’s not about his many crimes, egregious as they may have been. I hope we can agree that Clippit has paid his debt to society by now – and to the ex...
Spooner Mixed Up More Than His Words
A brief programming note: At the beginning of last year, I took a full-time job making daily puzzles, which I’m absolutely thrilled about but which has limited my ability to get these out with any regularity. I’m committed to fixing that th...
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