Quiz Guy John Chaneski calls this week’s puzzle “Three of a Kind, Four of a Kind,” but it has nothing to do with cards. The challenge is to find words that have either three occurrences of a letter or four. For example, if the letter in question is...
Peigner la girafe, literally to comb the giraffe, is French for being stuck with a tedious, useless, or annoying task. Canadian author Mark Abley includes it in Watch Your Tongue: What Our Everyday Sayings and Idioms Figuratively Mean., along with a...
Craig, a whale biologist in Alaska, wonders how many words have been adopted into English from such languages as Inuit, Yupik, Tlingit and Inupiaq. Indigenous languages in the far North have contributed mukluk, malamute, kayak, and parka. The word...
