Blips, din-dans and do-stuffs: the words of a shared family history
What are your family’s unique words, your ‘familect’? Have you any new additions, post-lockdown? Find out about ours!
What’s in a (virus) name?
How COVID-19 got its name, and why viruses aren’t named after places any more.
What’s in a name?
Shakespeare tells us ‘that which we call a rose| By any other name would smell as sweet’, but while many know the snippet of the speech, its wider context shows that Shakespeare (speaking through Juliet in this instance) knew that … Continued
Speaking of eggcorns
In the stories of Winnie the Pooh, acorns feature occasionally. Tiggers don’t like to eat them, but Piglets do, although they call them ‘haycorns’. Eggcorns are similar in origin – deriving from a woman who substituted ‘eggcorn’ for acorn. The … Continued