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 [...]
The Eskimos have 50 words for it; we have but one: snow, derived from the Old English ‘snaw’. And that, you would think, should rule out any ambiguity about a forecast of ‘heavy [...]
Tis the season of the satsuma, that Christmassy citrus delight that’s so easy to peel and fills the room with what 5th-century Chinese poet Liu Hsun described as a “fragrant mist”.
