Pound for pound, it’s the thinnest word in the English language, but just writing it has revealed a significant problem that I hadn’t foreseen: namely that it looks like the Roman for [...]
Around about this time last week, a fly flew into the office. Not a remarkable occurrence for an August morning, you might think, but like the beating of a butterfly’s wings, it triggered a [...]
You may be experiencing a sense of déjà vu. I will explain. Last week’s Word of the Week was something of a red herring. The subject line of the email said the word was pilgrim but the [...]
*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 [...]
This Wednesday a cry came out of a corner of the office, “It’s the first day of Spring!” To which we replied, “Spring doesn’t take a capital letter, unless [...]
