Festival season is upon us and the mind naturally wanders to haplology. No, that’s not the science of urinating in a plastic pint pot while watching Kassabian, it’s a term coined by [...]
Cashback. That’s a peculiar word, isn’t it? What began as, “Would you like cash back?” has morphed into, “Would you like cashback?” – cashback being not just [...]
This Word of the Week thing has been going on long enough now that, like a pub singer who churns out the crowd pleasers every night, I’m beginning to tire of other people’s words and [...]
*Warning: contains double entendres Alright, stop tittering at the back. There’s nothing amusing about the word chit, any more than there is about other everyday gardening terms, such as [...]
Nobody seems prepared to identify the one true father of rock’n’roll but, as the obits pointed out this week, there’s a strong likelihood that it was Chuck Berry. It certainly [...]
