Archives for the ‘Vocabulary’ Category
- 15 French Words and Phrases That Don’t Mean That in French
- 128 Words with Senses That Started Out as Underworld Slang
- The “Equal” Family of Words
- Words That Follow “Sequi”
- 20 Idioms About Reptiles
- “Off” and “On” Compounds
- Hind and Behind
- The “Anthropos” Family
- Ducts and Dukes Lead the Way
- 40 Fish Idioms
- Value and Valor
- The Long and Short of “Long-” Words
- Vague, Vagrant, and Vagabond
- What is a Calque?
- What Does “Retro” Mean?
- Secure and Sure
- From Atlas to Atlanticists
- The Connection Between Time and Temper
- “Terra” and Its Relations
- Commands and Mandates
- “Class” and Its Derivatives
- Words That Include “Dur”
- What “Mean” Means
- The Story of “Sake”
- The Impressive Range of “Impress”
- 50 Foreign Terms That Aren’t Foreign
- “Optics” Is in the Eye of the Beholder
- The Descendants of “Sedere”
- The Distance Between Two “Leagues”
- Words Starting with “Epi-“
- 40 Words Beginning with “Para-“
- Providence and Provision
- 75 Terms Pertaining to Color
- Quests and Questions
- Band, Bend, Bind, Bond, and Bund
- The Ol’ “Olde” Gets Old
- Valleys and Gullies
- Dog Whistles, Whistle-Blowers, and Whistle-Stop Tours
- Mister and Master
- Vengeance and Vindication
- Synonyms for “Works”
- Words Based on “Portare”
- 12 More Military Terms Used in Civilian Contexts
- The “Guard” Family
- Sacred Words
- Still More Words That Turn on the Root “Vert”
- Pleasing Words
- Saints and Sanctity
- More Words That Turn on the Root “Vert”
- The Meanings and Variations of “Sister”
- Words That Turn on the Root “Vert”
- The Meanings and Variations of “Brother”
- French Words with New Meanings in English
- Words in the “Struct” Family
- The Meanings and Variations of “Mother”
- The Meanings and Variations of “Father”
- Synonyms for “Think”
- 30 English Words Borrowed from Dutch
- Bull and Cow and Other Bovine Terms
- Proof and Prove
- Quads and Squads
- Probes and Probabilities
- The Word of the Year for 2016
- 25 Words Coined by Nineteenth-Century Authors
- Does the Bogeyman Boogie?
- The Many Cognates of “Cede”
- The Connotations of 30 Synonyms for “Cheat” and “Fool”
- 25 Words Coined by Twentieth-Century Authors
- Words Derived from “Pend”
- Retaining the Connotation of “Retinue”
- The Many Meanings of Quarter
- All About Like
- Grave, Gravy, and Gravity
- 15 Military Terms Used in Civilian Contexts
- Cant and Chant
- Police, Policy, and Politics
- 15 “Positions” and Their Variations
- The Protruding and Dominant Meanings of “Boss”
- Tactile, Tangible, and Tractable
- 20 Slang Terms for Law Enforcement Personnel
- Oft, Often, and Oftentimes
- The Weighty Relationship Between “Ponder” and “Pound”
- “Species” and Its Descendants
- Slangy, Trendy Words Are Still Words
- Atheists, Agnostics, and Apostates
- What’s the Difference (and the Connection) Between Marquee and Marquis?
- 65 Compound Words Ending in “Stone”
- The Latin Word for “Breathe” Inspired Many English Terms
- Subconscious vs. Unconscious
- Words for Extreme Weather Events
- 21 Words Stemming from the Latin Word for “Look At”
- The “Candid” in “Candidate”
- Synonyms for “Clothes”
- Sapient and Savor
- It’s All “Fine”
- Neologisms Come and Go
- What Is a Doctor?
- Words for Bodies of Lawmakers
- Words Ending in -aire
- Adjectives Synonymous with “Best”
- Words to Describe the Highest Point of Achievement
- 45 Idioms About Ordinal and Multiplicative Numbers
- Shades of Meaning in Names of Colors
- Conundrums, Puzzles, and Quizzes
- A Short List of Synonyms for “Shorten”
- The Descent of “Hag”
- Grit and Gritty
- “Halfway” and Other Ways
- What “For-” Is For
- Words Containing “-rupt”
- “Medium” and Its Large and Small Relatives
- Belie and Betray
- Trembler and Tremblor
- The Joy of Vocabulary Acquisition
- Sinewy and Sinuous
- Motifs and Motives
- 70 Idioms with Heart
- Words for Sellers and Makers
- Connotations of “Secretary”
- Bahuvrihi Compounds
- Toothy and Toothsome
- Mobs and Mobiles
- A Hella Cool New Dictionary Entry
- Words That Evolved from the Latin Term for “Turn”
- The Name of the Rose
- A Smorgasbord of Food Terms Meaning “Mixture”
- Words About Naming from Latin
- A Handy Guide to Words Starting with Mani-
- 5 Resources That Help You Answer “What’s That Word?”
- 12 Words with -join
- Prophetic, Predictive, Presageful, and Portentous
- Words That Denote Cooperation
- Cognates of Cognition
- What, Exactly, Is Synergy?
- Use of Names of Greek Letters in English
- Yay, Hooray, Woo-hoo and Other Acclamations
- Words with the -ster Suffix
- Notes About “Note” and Its Relations
- Enigmas, Puzzles, and Riddles
- Synonyms for “Sofa”
- The Root Word “Solve” and Its Offshoots
- 20 Synonyms for “Excuse”
- 50 Latin Phrases You Should Know
- Accost, Assail, Assault, and Attack
- “Locution” and Etymologically Related Terms About Speech
- Compounds with “Heart”
- Liquid and Other Types of Lunch
- Synonyms for “Answer”
- 75 Names of Unusual or Obsolete Occupations
- 10 Words Derived from “Scribe”
- 70 Words and Phrases to Identify a Horse
- Ever and Never
- 20 Words Meaning “Being or Existing in the Past”
- “Ply” and Other Words from the Fold
- 30 Words Containing the Letters “sm”
- English Titles of Nobility
- Vile and Villain
- Factory, Industry, and Plant
- 35 Synonyms for Rain and Snow
- 50 Synonyms for “Assistant”
- Quasi, the Queer Qualifier
- 20 Words That Contain “mn”
- Fatuous Means Foolish, Not Flabby
- Merriam-Webster’s 2015 Word of the Year Isn’t Even a Word
- First an Emoji, Now a Suffix
- Deplete
- The Verb “To Twit”
- Bar vs. Debar
- Radishes and Radicals
- The Argentine and Ukraine
- Brexit and the Fantods
- Buster
- Is Inferencing a Word?
- Indefatigable
- From Argonaut to Internaut
- Wetware
- The Combining Form -pod
- The Oxford Short List 2015
- What Color is Ombre?
- Wend and Wind
- What About Hence?
- Translatory
- Save “Dispute” For People
- Stress and Emphasize
- Is an Emoji a Word?
- “Liminal” Is Not a “Fancy Word”
- Hypocrite or Just Liar?
- Two Kinds of Protagonist
- Nonplussed
- Meanings of Tool
- Quantify
- Inferno and Infernal
- Stigma, Stigmas, and Stigmata
- All Things Political
- Porn Joins Pimp
- Semantics and Connotations
- Naive and Naivety
- Luddites
- The Three Restauranteers
- Diegesis and Diegetic
- Vindicate, Avenge and Revenge
- Derrick, From Gothic King to Cranes and Oil Rigs
- Rankle
- Act and Action
- Maven
- Peruse and Some Alternatives
- Friends and Amici
- Demanding, Demandable, and In Demand
- Dispositive
- Diminish, Decline, and Dwindle
- Whose Little Brainchild Are You?
- Don’t Be Despondent Over Slough and Slew
- Nous, Noology, and the Noosphere
- Another meaning for Dope
- Standard, Standardize, and Standardized
- Remember the Tricolon
- Comment, Suggestion, and Feedback
- Is Ask a Noun?
- Many and Much
- 5 Arabic Words in the News
- Angles and Anglos
- Paronyms and Paranyms
- Unbeknownst
- Varying Degrees of Stupid
- A Funny Thing About William
- Different Meanings of Hallmark
- 10 Fleshy Words
- Idiom
- Emoji
- Metonymy
- Disruptive and Disruptor
- 25 French Food-related Terms in English
- Internet Initialisms
- Cryptid
- Discomfort and Discomfiture
- Mediation, Arbitration, and Litigation
- The Changing Meaning of School
- Sumptuous
- Etymons and Lemmas
- Unctuous, A Humpty Dumpty Word
- Annual and Anniversary
- Little and Small
- A New Use For the Verb Pitted?
- Baleful and Baneful
- Anglos and Saxons Before England
- Offendotron and Microagression
- Common, Mutual, and Reciprocal
- Grassroots
- Diffusion Confusion
- Polyamory
- Passionate and Impassioned
- Beautyism and Friends
- Waxing and Waning
- Crusade
- Kin Words
- Sexy
- Litotes
- Gibe, Gybe, Jibe, and Jive
- Uncouth, Unkempt, and Unwieldy
- Sense and Nonsense
- Worked, Wrought and Overwrought
- Woof or Weft?
- Old School Hack
- Do-gooder Is Not a Positive Term
- The Changing Meaning of Mural
- Personification vs. Anthropomorphism
- Hack, Hacker and Hacking
- Two Bad Prefixes
- Acronym vs. Initialism
- Wayward
- Collision and Collusion
- Clip
- Primer, Manual and Handbook
- Gospel
- Dysphoria and Other Dys- Words
- Form and Forum
- Blood Words
- Gig
- Euphoria
- Redact
- Malarkey Doesn’t Mean That
- Business Cadence
- Credence
- Calculus
- Stalwart
- Feckless
- Flirts and Philanderers
- Ethereal
- Degrade
- Hoi Polloi
- Inculcate
- Patron and Patronize
- Allegedly
- Borne By, Borne On, and Borne With
- Vet, Vetted, Vetting
- Venerate
- Landscape
- The Suffix -esque
- Innuendo
- Marriage Words
- Person vs. Persona
- Talking about Age in the Media
- Epic, Really Epic
- Head Words
- Convicted Felon
- Psyche and Her Progeny
- Enthusiasm and Enthuse
- Idea and Ideal
- Appropriate vs. Apropos vs. Apt
- Tortuous, Torturous, and Tortious
- Punk
- Factoid and Tabloid
- Colorful Words from Latin
- Gurus and other Teachers
- Round
- Cynics and Cynosures
- Aphorisms, Mottos and Sayings
- Suffer and Suffrage
- Dude and Dudette
- Insults and Aspersions
- Gossip
- Scopist
- Hex Words
- Steampunk
- The “Pied” in The Pied Piper
- Words That Begin with Q
- Word Clipping
- Words Beginning With For- and Fore-
- Is Positivity a Word?
- Colorful Words from the Greek
- Dogged and Doggedly
- Ignorance, Ignominy, and Other ig- Words
- Efforting to Remain Calm
- Hanging Words
- Gravitas
- Prioritize
- Six Words from Shakespeare for 2014
- The Many Meanings of Mean
- Indolence and Indolent
- Nascent and other Words for New
- Confidence
- Janus Words
- Undertaker
- Canadians, Mexicans, and Usonians
- Loan Translations
- Mayhem and Maiming
- What’s a Lair and How Do You Pronounce It?
- Impervious and Impenetrable
- Tearing, Ripping, and Rending
- Anecdote and Anecdotal
- Progeny and Other Offspring
- Pair and Other Words Meaning Two
- Genius
- Animal Adjectives
- Those Pesky Pastimes
- Vulgar and Vulgarity
- Talking About Young People
- 15 English Words of Indian Origin
- Godwin’s Law
- Libation
- Bigot, The All-Purpose Insult
- Chapels and Chaplains
- Compel, Impel, and Propel
- Credible Words
- How Many Words in English?
- Agnostic
- The Eponymy Family
- Subvert and Suborn
- Hyperbole and Hype
- All-purpose Corpus
- Balkanize
- The Magic of Grammar
- How Many Words in Your Vocabulary?
- Two Kinds of Homage
- 50 Synonyms for Control
- Testimony vs. Testimonial
- Doublet and Triplet Adjectives
- Repast and Repaste
- “Fort” and Other Strong Words
- 50 Idioms About Legs, Feet, and Toes
- 50 Synonyms for “Leader”
- What’s the Difference Between “Reluctance” and “Reticence?
- What’s the Difference Between “Frantic” and “Frenetic”?
- Too Much French Vocabulary Is the Haute of Hauteur
- Compound Terms That Start with “Half”
- 40 Synonyms for “Different”
- 50 Types of Propaganda
- 12 Terms for Tests and Related Expressions
- 45 Synonyms for “Old” and “Old-Fashioned”
- What’s the Best Way to Refer to a Romantic Partner?
- Terms for the Seasons of the Year
- 75 Synonyms for “Cheat,” “Fraud,” or “Trickery”
- Terms for Time of the Day
- 25 Synonyms for “Sign” and “Symbol”
- 50 Synonyms and Idioms for “Give”
- 8 Sneering Synonyms for “Obvious”
- The Quest for the Best Word Ever
- 12 Types of Language
- There’s a Word for That
- 10 Humorous, Derisive, or Slang Synonyms for “Leader” or “Official”
- Synonyms for “Car”
- 25 Synonyms for “Deceptive” and “Fake
- DARE, the Definitive Record of American Dialect, Is Done
- 50 Synonyms for “Villain”
- The Meanings and Connotations of “Junior” and “Senior”
- 20 Names of Body Parts and Elements and Their Figurative Meanings
- The Most Overused Words of 2012
- The Word of the Year for 2012
- 20 Synonyms for “Law,” “Order,” or “Rule”
- Alternative Meanings for Names of the Head and Its Parts
- 10 Words That Include the Element “-Cept”
- Alternative Meanings for “Hand” and Names of Its Parts
- Figurative and Alternate Meanings for 20 Medical Terms
- 50 Idioms About Fruits and Vegetables
- 7 Ethnic Names with Figurative Meanings
- 30 Words for Small Amounts
- 10 Words for Bodily Functions and Actions
- 15 Types of Documents
- 15 Color Terms
- 15 Idioms for Periods of Time
- 50 Slang Terms for Money
- Connotations of 35 Words for Funny People
- 30 Nautical Expressions
- Cat Connotations
- 50 Nautical Terms in General Use
- 15 Familial Terms and Their Other Meanings
- 5 Animals That Inspire Canine Connotations
- 35 Synonyms for “Look”
- 20 Synonyms for “Shortage”
- 35 Fossil Words
- 25 Favorite Portmanteau Words
- 30 Synonyms for “Meeting”
- 25 Coups de Plume
- 25 Synonyms for “Delete”
- 12 Italian Loanwords
- 20 Ways to Cry
- 20 Ways to Laugh
- Make Way for New Words
- 20 Synonyms for “Type”
- 25 German Loanwords
- 5 Words from the Kitchen
- 20 Evocative French Words
- “Fraught” Is a Heavy Word
- 40 Helpful Words Ending in -Ade
- The Anglo-Saxon Angle
- 5 “Re-” Words That Aren’t Repeats
- Q Words
- 7 Terms with the Root “-Vore”
- 7 Heavenly Bodies as Sources of Adjectives
- 36 Adjectives Describing Light
- 10 Tacky Terms
- 20 Words for That Certain Something
- 60 Synonyms for “Walk”
- The Suffix “-esque” and the Like
- Stay a While and Learn About “Sojourn”
- 7 Military Ranks Common in Popular Culture
- 60 Synonyms for “Trip”
- 25 Russian Words Used in English (and 25 More That Should Be)
- 45 Synonyms for “Food”
- 10 Types of Numerical Terms
- 85 Synonyms for “Help”
- 30 Archaic Adjectives and Adverbs
- 90 Verbs Starting with “Ex-”
- 50 Synonyms for “Idea”
- 75 Synonyms for “Hard”
- 20 Pairs of One-Word and Two-Word Forms
- 50 Musical Terms Used in Nonmusical Senses
- 10 Types of Wordplay
- 100 Words for Facial Expressions
- 15 Big Little Words
- 75 Synonyms for “Angry”
- 50 Idioms About Talking
- 75 Synonyms for “Talk”
- Accidental Shifts in Meaning
- 40 Synonyms for “Lie”
- 25 Synonyms for “Story”
- The Word of the Year 2011
- 25 Adverbs That Get an “A”
- 85 Synonyms for “House”
- 50 Words for “Writing”
- A Couple of Notes About “Couple”
- 50 Diminutive Suffixes (and a Cute Little Prefix)
- 55 Synonyms for “Courage”
- 40 Synonyms for Praise
- These Are “-Some” Adjectives
- 55 Synonyms for “Criticize”
- 15 Words for Household Rooms, and Their Synonyms
- 50 Words with the Most Whimsical Prefix
- 35 Words Frequently Found in Compounds
- 25 Synonyms for “Beginner”
- 25 Synonyms for “Expression”
- Words About Feeling and Suffering
- 5 Words and Their Nonantonymic Antonyms
- 15 Terms for Forms and Types of Governance
- 15 Terms for Those Who Tell the Future
- 75 Contronyms (Words with Contradictory Meanings)
- Are New Words Right for Your Writing?
- 7 Rules for Identifying People by Place Names
- Take Care with Connotation
- Handle Popular Culture Terms with Care
- Terms About Courts and the Judicial System
- 10 Ethnic Terms
- Know Your Regional Vocabulary
- Slipping into Newspeak
- Military Ranks, Units and Weapons
- The Changing Uses of “Freak”
- One Pant, Two Pants?
- What Are the Mean, the Median, and the Mode?
- 50+ Words That Describe Animals (Including Humans)
- When Words Collide
- 5 Types of Eponyms
- Of Muscles, Mussels, and Mice
- The Difference Between Extortion and Blackmail
- Loanwords from 12+ Unexpected Languages
- What’s So Hard about “Docent”?
- Can You Craft New Words?
- Stay on the Map with New Geopolitical Names
- Draconian Implies Cruelty
- 50 Rhetorical Devices for Rational Writing
- 100 Whimsical Words
- 10 Latin Abbreviations You Might Be Using Incorrectly
- 100 Beautiful and Ugly Words
- Emphasis for Epithets and Personification
- 100 Mostly Small But Expressive Interjections
- 10 Words for Categories of Words
- Inhibit vs Prohibit
- Is “into” after “invade” really necessary?
- Sin is Bad
- “Blatantly” and “patently”
- “Rhubarb” is not just a Vegetable
- Clean out of spondulicks!
- Embezzlement, Peculation, and Connotation
- Expanded and Extended
- Cleave, Cleaver, and Clove
- Parley and Parlay
- Semi-, Demi-, and Hemi-
- What’s an “Ambigram”?
- Despite or In Spite of?
- Interpreters and Commentators
- Bits and Bytes
- 20 Computer Terms You Should Know
- Foiled Again!
- Loanwords and Calques
- Five Misleading Names
- One Die, Two Dice
- The Cardinal Connection
- The Curious History of “Bead”
- Vaccination and Baccalaureate
- Dictionaries and Lexicons
- Is that a Hapax Legomenon?
- Safety and Security
- Spasmodic
- Bunting and Bunting
- What Exactly is “Folk Etymology”?
- Confronting and Affronting
- A Blessing in Blood
- Aerial, Areal, and Ariel
- Curbs and Sidewalks
- The Difference Between “Shade” and “Shadow”
- Verbally and Orally
- Is She a “Lady” or a “Woman”?
- “Gratitude” or “Gratefulness”?
- “Nonce-words,” “For the Nonce,” and “Nonce”
- What’s a “Factoid”?
- Abroad and Overseas
- Normality and Normalcy
- Can a “Chimera” be Real?
- Difference between “Pressing” and “Ironing”
- Plumber and Related Words
- Imminent, Immanent, and Eminent
- Event and Occasion
- Submissions and Submittals
- Taking and Bringing
- Whaling May Result in Weals
- Portmanteau Words
- Shakespeare’s Vocabulary
- The Word is “Careless”
- How often is “bimonthly”?
- Do you “orient” yourself, or “orientate” yourself?
- 36 Poetry Terms
- What Color is “Wan”?
- Act of God and Vis Major
- How Much Is A “Billion”?
- The Many Meanings of “Sweat”
- Use of the word “Latest”
- Why “Noon” is no longer the “Ninth Hour”
- Meaning of the suffix “-ee”
- Euhemerism and the Gods
- Is “Prepone” a Word?
- Don’t Be Burnt By “Inflammable”
- 20 Criminal Terms You Should Know
- Having a Yen
- Not All Memes are Bad
- The Triple Threat of ‘Sures’
- Mankind, Humankind, and Gender
- Don’t Snite in Public
- 30 Religious Terms You Should Know
- Truth or Fact?
- Getting a Raise and Getting a Rise
- Electric Cars and Electrical Engineers
- The Naked Truth About “Gym” and “Gymno”
- Time on Your Hands
- “Certified” and “Certificated”
- To Put It Bluntly . . .
- Step into the GLM Time Machine
- Difference Between “Barbarous” and “Barbaric”?
- What’s That Thingummy?
- Mistletoe
- Elision or tmesis?
- A Cigarette Butt is One Thing…
- Difference Between “inure” and “enure”
- Therefore and Therefor
- Taser or Tazer? Tazing or Tasering?
- What the Heck are “Peeps”?
- Sobeit and So Be It
- So Sorry to Hear That You Were Impacted!
- Regarding Re:
- Three Alternatives?
- Leech and Leach
- What’s the Difference Between “Too” and “Also”?
- The Many Uses of “Swipe”
- Wardens and Guardians
- Words and Expressions Related to “Palm”
- Are You Sure You Mean “Majority”?
- What’s the Difference Between “Say” and “Tell”?
- What do you call your Wordhord?
- How to Describe Gibberish
- Stifle, already!
- That Annoying New Verb “disrespect”
- Fount of Wisdom
- “Only” Murder
- Uses of “Dispose”
- “Persian” is a Lovely Word
- Anorexia, Meet Orthorexia
- “Juridical” and “Juridicial”
- Sideways and Clockwise
- Hopefully Caring Less About Shibboleths
- Running Errands and Doing Chores
- Hippo Words
- Words for Saintly Golden Light
- Oligarchy + Monopoly ≠ Oligopoly
- Cinderella Didn’t Wear Cotton to the Ball
- Bouncebackability
- Italicizing Foreign Words
- Wake Up, Little Suzy!
- When is a Door Not a Door?
- You Too Can Sponsor A Word!
- What’s a Miscreant and How Is It Pronounced?
- The Difference Between “Phonics” and “Phonetics”
- Words beginning with “homo-“
- Chopping Off Syllables
- Is There a Difference Between “Assume” and “Presume”?
- Tracking the “Fangle” in “Newfangled”
- How Drunk Are You? Let Me Count the Ways!
- Running “Toward” the House, or “Towards” the House?
- Pangrams and Lipograms
- This Charette is Not A Tumbril
- 30 Words Inspired by 29 People and An Elephant
- The Changing Faces of “Present” and “Presentation”
- Flautist or Flutist?
- The Difference Between “While” and “Whilst”
- Not All Epithets are Insults
- What’s a Retronym?
- Don’t Overdo “Do”
- The Word is “Succumbed”
- What Is A Pundit or Punditry?
- What’s the Difference Between a Speech and an Address?
- Body Parts as Tools of Measurement
- Words Formed from the Initial Letters of Other Words
- Deck the Halls
- Data and Information
- Demons, Daemons and Daimons
- Names “Epicene” and Otherwise
- Merriam-Webster’s Words of the Year 2008
- Words for Subservient People and Actions
- Words to Describe Fearful Recoil
- Hermes, God of the Word
- Numskulls, Noodles, and Nincompoops
- Words to Describe Degrees of Religiosity
- Don’t Blame the Americans for this One!
- Idiots, Imbeciles, and Morons
- Hurray for “Slew!”
- Here Come the Candidates
- Apophenia — Filling the Blanks
- They, their, them, eggs and freckles!
- Dial One, Followed by the Octothorpe
- The -escent Suffix
- 12 Greek Words You Should Know
- I Have A Theory…
- Complacent, Complaisant
- The Scandinavian Connection
- Obsessed With Ob- Words
- Converse Terms
- Prevaricate vs Procrastinate
- Rebut, Refute, Deny
- Dissatisfied, Unsatisfied
- Homograph Examples
- Arabic Loanwords In English
- Verb Words
- Super Words
- “Epi-” Words for Writers
- Reduplicatives And Their Meanings
- Womanly Words – Gyn
- Weird Words
- Andro- The Prefix That’s All Man
- Calling All Book Lovers
- Reduplicatives – Double Delight
- Among vs. Amongst
- Poring over “Pore” and “Pour”
- Reader Piqued By French Mutilations
- Misfeasance or Malfeasance?
- Knickerbocker Story
- Medium, Media
- Onomatopoeia (it is not something to eat)
- Good Friday and Easter
- Rhinotillexis on the Decline
- The Unfortunate Dys
- Bouillon, Bullion or Boolean?
- Fun With Words: Palindromes
- What is the Difference Between Metaphor and Simile?
- Months: A History Of Time
- Rite, Write, Right, Wright
- A Sweet Story About Marmalade
- Positions, Please
- The Yiddish Handbook: 40 Words You Should Know
- Words for Telling the Future
- Days: A History Of Time
- Time Words: Era, Epoch, and Eon
- Festive Words
- The Meaning Of Christmas
- W00T – Word Of The Year
- Gentle and Genteel
- Doublets: An Endless Source of Fascination
- Chant and Cant
- Do Synonyms Exist?
- Among/Amongst: Is there a Difference?