Just to clarify, that’s nice as in mice, not Nice as in Côte d’Azur, in case you’re still in holiday mode. Although, since we acquired the word from the French, there’s [...]
Festival season is upon us and the mind naturally wanders to haplology. No, that’s not the science of urinating in a plastic pint pot while watching Kassabian, it’s a term coined by [...]
*Warning: contains double entendres Alright, stop tittering at the back. There’s nothing amusing about the word chit, any more than there is about other everyday gardening terms, such as [...]
Nobody seems prepared to identify the one true father of rock’n’roll but, as the obits pointed out this week, there’s a strong likelihood that it was Chuck Berry. It certainly [...]
Say what you like about sausages, they don’t make life easy when you’ve got a lisp. Neither do crisps, Wispa bars, biscuits or any of the other sweet tasting sensations they sell in [...]