There are certain words, the use (or overuse) of which I’m finding increasingly unacceptable – ‘unacceptable’ being a prime example. A bruised banana from the market stall is [...]
You might not have noticed but there are certain rules I try to apply when I write Word of the Week. One is never to pretend to know about Greek literature, unless you can make it really [...]
I learnt today that a pitchfork isn’t called a pitchfork because you use it to pitch hay onto a hay cart, it’s called a pitchfork because it’s pointy and you poke it into the [...]
By popular request (well, he asked nicely), Brian’s back in the guest chair this week, with a word that looks innocent enough but is, I suspect, the gateway to a gloat about recent [...]
