Tor from Vermont asks about makes no never mind to me, a phrase he heard after moving as a teenager from New Jersey to the Northeast Kingdom. It means roughly “I don’t care” or “it makes no difference to me,” with nevermind behaving like a noun. The...
Patience, Hope, and Charity are pretty ambitious things to name your children. But what about Hate-evil, Be-courteous, or Search-the-scriptures? Or Fight-the-good-fight-of-faith? Puritan parents sometimes gave their kids so as to encourage those...
