Time for another linguistic mystery. Where would you be if you decided to go twacking around duckish, and then you came home and wrote about it in a scribbler?
In what part of the country would you be likely to hear momicking, meehonkey, and quamish?
We’re continuing our look at some of the words of the year of 2008 with words related to automobiles.
The death of Martha‘s favorite cat Typo prompts her to reminisce about him, and about one of her favorite ailurophilic words, chatoyant.
We heard a lot in 2008 about the Obama campaign’s ground game. What’s the story on that expression?
Earlier this summer a word caught my fancy: “gardentoolism.” So I made a slang quiz about it!