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Word of the Week: I

Finger painting a letter I

Last week I shared my excitement at learning that you can make a sentence using only the word ‘buffalo‘ eight times in a row. No sooner had I discovered that revelation than it was trumped by Radio 2 playing I Should Have Known Better by Jim Diamond, in which he proves that you can make a sentence using the word ‘I’ 10 times consecutively.

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Word of the Week: Trousers

Trousers flying from a flagpole

I don’t know if you’ve been watching the Netflix dramatised history series Alexander: The Making of a God, but it seems to have divided audience opinion: those who thought it was really good and those who thought it was really bad (I’m trying to avoid the word Marmite. But there I go.)

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Word of the Week: Gasometer

Gasometer

This year we should see the construction of a luxury housing development within the iconic gasometer by The Oval cricket ground – the historic grade II listed metal lattice that has looked down not only on countless classic cricket matches but also the first ever football international (England v Scotland, 1870), the first ever FA Cup Final (Wanderers v Royal Engineers, 1872) and the first rugby internationals.

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Word of the Week: Memory

Saturn

I had my annual appraisal this week. It’s always a rather uncomfortable process when you’re self-employed, and this year it was especially so as I decided to introduce upward appraisals, whereby the employee appraises the boss. What downtrodden lackey wouldn’t jump at such an opportunity to stick it to the man? (more…)

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Word of the Week: Thumb

Thumbs up gesture

I once won a competition to name a new brand of Japanese food. ‘Fudi’ was my ingenious suggestion, cleverly melding the word ‘food’ with the iconic Japanese mountain in a neat four-letter device that gave the phonetic impression of gastronomic appreciation and could be adapted to either square or linear visual representation. Apparently the new brand was half way to the supermarket shelves when someone pointed out that the name was dangerously similar to the Punjabi word for vagina, so the whole thing had to be scrapped and I was asked to hand back half of my prize money. Like I did it on purpose!

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Word of the Week: Sherry

Elderly Spanish lady

The start of a new year is always a good time for campaigning, so while you’re feeling post-Christmas bluesy and susceptible to any idea that might just blow a hole in the clouds, I’d like to fill your cup with the joyful suggestion that we make this year the year of the return of sherry.

Sherry?

Sherry.

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