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Table of Contents
Beastly Pronunciations
'Foul' Language and the Modern Internet
British Spam week cooks up old memories
Can we Defang the N-Word before We Cleanse People's Minds
Churchill's wartime worries - beer, grammar, rubbish
Good Breeding Is for the Dogs; Why Not Memorize Nancy Mitford
Let a Simile be your Umbrella
Librarians Debate Internet Filters
Metonymy and Conceptual Blending
Of Nerds And Words: The etymology of technology terms we know and love
Rumpy pumpy, Weakest Link and Full Monty get into Roget's Thesaurus
The Law of the Playground (playground slang)
The Philosophy of Punctuation
A Glossary of the Low Life
A Prisoner's Dictionary
Analemma
Buffy Slanguage
Charactonym
Gay Slang Dictionary
The Aliens' Guide to Oxford University: Glossary of terms
What is the difference between "allegory" and "parable"?
What is the difference between "luxuriant" and "luxurious"?
What is the opposite of "euphemism"?
What word describes a person who is unfailingly boring?
What word means "an undistinguished descendant of an illustrious person"?
J. R. R. Tolkien and the OED
Origins of Band Names
The etymology of punctuation marks
What is the etymology of Coochie-Coo, Hooch, Hoochy, Hootchy, Hootchie-Cootchie?
What is the origin of "get a life"?
What is the difference between "Scotch" and "Scottish"?
What is the difference between "catachresis" and "metaphor"?
What is the difference between "gibberish" and "gobbledegook"? "gobbledygook"?
The Eskimo Snow Vocabulary Debate: Fallacies and Confusions
What is the origin of "Bob's your uncle"? "Bob is your uncle"?
What is the origin of "balls to the wall"?
Where does the phrase "taking the mick", "taking the mickey" come from?
Prepositions to end Sentences With
What are the correct usages of "to lie" and "to lay"?
Which is correct: "different from", or "different than"?
British Slang
Jargon for bullfighting enthusiasts
Jargon for license plate collectors
Nitpickers Guild Glossary
Rabbit language
Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: This is the language spoken by Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, Mike Hammer and the Continental Op. When Cagney, Bogart, Robinson and Raft got in a turf war, this is how they talked.
Civil War Slang
Is English the "Official" Language of the UK?
The Great Vowel Shift
Arda, or Ardor: Getting to the Root of Tolkien's Tongues
Cliche Finder
How Do You Say 'Oops' in French?
Synecdoche in Music
The most beautiful words in the English language
Use Bizarre Metaphors
Do you know where the phrase Frick and Frack originated? I'm sure it wasn't because of the Back Street Boys.
What is the origin of Elephant and Castle? Is it really from Infanta of Castile?
Malaprops I have known
The Surrealist Compliment Generator
The Top 20 Bad Suspense Novel Metaphors or Similes
The Web Economy Bullsh*t Generator
Is English the only language that has spelling bees?
English usage
english-usage.net, english-usage.org, yaelf.com
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Table of Contents
Beastly Pronunciations
'Foul' Language and the Modern Internet
British Spam week cooks up old memories
Can we Defang the N-Word before We Cleanse People's Minds
Churchill's wartime worries - beer, grammar, rubbish
Good Breeding Is for the Dogs; Why Not Memorize Nancy Mitford
Let a Simile be your Umbrella
Librarians Debate Internet Filters
Metonymy and Conceptual Blending
Of Nerds And Words: The etymology of technology terms we know and love
Rumpy pumpy, Weakest Link and Full Monty get into Roget's Thesaurus
The Law of the Playground (playground slang)
The Philosophy of Punctuation
A Glossary of the Low Life
A Prisoner's Dictionary
Analemma
Buffy Slanguage
Charactonym
Gay Slang Dictionary
The Aliens' Guide to Oxford University: Glossary of terms
What is the difference between "allegory" and "parable"?
What is the difference between "luxuriant" and "luxurious"?
What is the opposite of "euphemism"?
What word describes a person who is unfailingly boring?
What word means "an undistinguished descendant of an illustrious person"?
J. R. R. Tolkien and the OED
Origins of Band Names
The etymology of punctuation marks
What is the etymology of Coochie-Coo, Hooch, Hoochy, Hootchy, Hootchie-Cootchie?
What is the origin of "get a life"?
What is the difference between "Scotch" and "Scottish"?
What is the difference between "catachresis" and "metaphor"?
What is the difference between "gibberish" and "gobbledegook"? "gobbledygook"?
The Eskimo Snow Vocabulary Debate: Fallacies and Confusions
What is the origin of "Bob's your uncle"? "Bob is your uncle"?
What is the origin of "balls to the wall"?
Where does the phrase "taking the mick", "taking the mickey" come from?
Prepositions to end Sentences With
What are the correct usages of "to lie" and "to lay"?
Which is correct: "different from", or "different than"?
British Slang
Jargon for bullfighting enthusiasts
Jargon for license plate collectors
Nitpickers Guild Glossary
Rabbit language
Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: This is the language spoken by Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, Mike Hammer and the Continental Op. When Cagney, Bogart, Robinson and Raft got in a turf war, this is how they talked.
Civil War Slang
Is English the "Official" Language of the UK?
The Great Vowel Shift
Arda, or Ardor: Getting to the Root of Tolkien's Tongues
Cliche Finder
How Do You Say 'Oops' in French?
Synecdoche in Music
The most beautiful words in the English language
Use Bizarre Metaphors
Do you know where the phrase Frick and Frack originated? I'm sure it wasn't because of the Back Street Boys.
What is the origin of Elephant and Castle? Is it really from Infanta of Castile?
Malaprops I have known
The Surrealist Compliment Generator
The Top 20 Bad Suspense Novel Metaphors or Similes
The Web Economy Bullsh*t Generator
Is English the only language that has spelling bees?
English usage
