Quiz Guy John Chaneski insists that the names of modern Olympic sports resulted from changing one letter in the original names for each activity. For example, he says, the pole vault must have originated from an earlier sport in which participants...
You may have a favorite word in English, but what about your favorite in another language? The Spanish term ojalá is especially handy for expressing hopefulness and derives from Arabic for “God willing.” In Trinidad, if you want to ask...
rat-racing n. a playful form of high-speed flying in which airplanes pursue or attempt to out-maneuver each other, similar to a game of cat-and-mouse. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
rat spill n. the accidental importation of rats to a rat-free island (or, rarely, to any rat-free piece of land). (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
