If you catch your blue jeans on a nail, you may find yourself with a winklehawk. This term, adapted into English from Dutch, means “an L-shaped tear in a piece of fabric.” And: What’s your relationship with the books on your shelves? Do the ones you...
A minuend is a quantity from which something is to be subtracted. The amount subtracted is called the subtrahend. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Minuend” Here’s another example from our Facebook group discussion about odd words...