If you want to be a better writer, try skipping today’s bestsellers, and read one from the 1930’s instead. Or read something besides fiction in order to find your own metaphors and perspective. Plus, just because a city’s name...
A bible lump, or a bible bump, is a ganglion cyst that sometimes forms on the wrist. It’s also called a book cyst, the reason being that people sometimes try to smash them with a book, but don’t try this at home! This is part of a...
Have a question about objective pronouns? Whom ya gonna call? Wait–is that right? Or would it be “who ya gonna call”? “Whom” may be technically correct, but insisting on it can get you called an elitist. It’s...
flipping n.— «Those wetlands that remained were often tracts of infertile, troublesome land such as the West Coast pakihi swamps. Yet today even these are under pressure. Mechanical diggers are now used to smash the buried, impervious...
cadillac v.— «I knew that second one (another 2-run smash in the fourth) was going. I was so sure that I hot-dogged it around the bases. You know what I mean—I gave it that home run trot—sort of Cadillacked my way around the bases...
mouseholing v.— «Eventually they took the medieval town on the other side by fighting from house to house developing a technique called “mouseholing.” Soldiers would clear one house and smash through the wall into the next...