SODDI defense
n.— «The spa plant, Pritsker said, had relied on a classic “SODDI” defense—that “some other dude did it.”» —“Case of Spa Maker Charged With Fouling School Air Ends in Mistrial” by Myron Levin Los Angeles Times Nov. 16, 1985. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Many of us struggled with the Old English poem “Beowulf” in high school. But what if you could actually hear “Beowulf” in the English of today? There’s a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley that uses contemporary...
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...