Fancy a Spot of Weequashing?

That people do strange things is news to no one.  I once happened upon a man casually stuffing a goat into the boot of his car on a busy main street in Muscat, Oman.  A little closer to home (Sydney, Australia), the strangeness continues.  Google Maps provides some very amusing fly-on-the-wall insights into the inherent … Continue reading →

The Case for Doughnuts, Donuts*, and Olykoeks

X:           “Have you ever thought about the word donut?” Me:        “Yeh, what’s with the dough becoming do?” X:           “No, I’m talking about the nut.  WHERE IS THE NUT?” X had a point.  Beyond the rude truncation of dough to do(h), I had never given much thought to the suffix.  Nut.  Apart from liability-limiting ‘traces’, … Continue reading →

Welcome, Word Nerds!

Welcome, word nerds. We bring you the words that have been deemed unwanted by society and evicted from English dictionaries or banished to the periphery of contemporary vernacular. Help us save them from extinction. Bring back the words! Continue reading →