You’ve noticed work seems to expand to fill the time given to complete it. But did you know there’s a term for that? Also this week, the New England exclamation “So don’t I!,” grey vs. gray, building storeys, being...
The British slang adjective squiffy first appeared in the 19th century and means drunk. A golden gut signals dependable business acumen, the kind of intuition that data can override. At Google, one story goes, 41 shades of blue were tested to see...
Squiffy, that British slang term for drunk, has also come to mean “askew.” At a Roman orgy, for example, you might have found people wearing squiffy laurel crowns. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Squiffy...