The Bad Simile

“Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.”
Well, actually you do: chocolate; bloated; nausea after over indulging.
d+e

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Unnecessary Words

“Homes wrecked in violent storm.”
First, anybody who’s had their home destroyed by a storm has our utmost sympathy. I was a victim of lightning last week. It didn’t actually fry me, charring my clothes in that comic film way, rather it hit the power lines which overloaded the circuits in the house, destroying my computer.
Last [...]

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Word of the Week

Greetings from the North of England. We’ve got some weird sayings here, which brings me to…
The Word of the Week is: spud
If we’re going to peel some spuds, hopefully we’ll be having chips, or French Fries as some people prefer to call them, as opposed to boring boiled or mashed potatoes.
Spuds can be fun [...]

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Word of the Week

This weeks WOTW is: clack
Here’s a usage of the word clack you may not be familiar with:
Get that down yer clack, son.
He’s got no clacker he hasn’t.
Clack, or clacker, then is the gullet. I’ve hunted high and low for the origins of this usage, which is found in Northern England, but believe it stems from [...]

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Let Me Elabourate

Flavor. Favorite. Color.
These words are so much better with the addition of one single letter.
Flavour. Favourite. Colour.
Yes, there we go. They seem so much more elegant now.
Sometimes, I wish I were British or Canadian (though not French Canadian because, well, I guess I’d be speaking French) so that I could spell my words that way.
Hell, [...]

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Appropriate?

nappy n. Brit. a piece of soft absorbent material wrapped around the waist and between the legs of a baby to absorb its excrement. [from napkin]
diaper n. U.S. & Canada. a nappy. [Medieval Greek diaspros pure white]
The above definitions were taken from my Collins dictionary. I’d love to hear the definition of [...]

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Bo, Let’s Make Up A Word!

A duty we have as human beings, I believe, is to contribute at least one completely original word to our respective primary languages.
Sure, the literary snobs will preach the sanctity of form and the virtues of purity … but, really, those guys never get laid.
Shakespeare certainly wasn’t afraid to make up some words,and judging by [...]

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