Ron in Gloverville, South Carolina, wonders about the phrase since hatchet was hammer, which some use to mean “for a long period of time,” as in My family has lived here since hatchet was hammer. Another phrase he’s heard indicating the same thing...
Joanne of Port St. Lucie, Florida, has a Scrabble nemesis: zax, a word that once cost her a challenge and later disappeared from the dictionary her friends checked. It is a valid Scrabble word for a roofing tool and a variant of sax, from an Old...
