Salon magazine writer Andi Zeisler likens the em-dash to black licorice: ”Those who like it love it; those who don’t will loudly and repeatedly let you know.” This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “The Black Licorice of Punctuation” You...
Books were rare treasures in the Middle Ages, painstakingly copied out by hand. So how to protect them from theft? Scribes sometimes added a curse to the first page of those books that was supposed to keep thieves away — and some were as vicious as...
U-turn transaction n.— «Iranian banks and other institutions could previously send transactions through US banks as long as they were initiated by a non-Iranian or American bank outside the US and ended in a non- Iranian or American bank outside...
suicide lane n.— «The project plans U-turns through median cuts at seven major intersections to replace the existing middle “suicide lane.”» —“Businesses gearing up to fight DOT plan for Memorial Drive median” by David K. Secrest Atlanta Journal...
porno-stache
n.— «Did I mention Vince Vaughn has a porno-stache?» —“‘Starsky’ cuffs comedy old-school style” by Josh Harrison in University of Nebraska U-Wire Mar. 5, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
