Archive for January, 2013
Everyone knows about homophones. But I only just learned about homophenes: different words that look the same to a lip-reader. See also A Lip Reader Deciphers The Umpire-Manager Arguments Of...
I recently read a novel set among Depression-era hoboes, which led me to look up some of the slang terms, which led me to an online dictionary of hobo slang....
Joe Posnanski recounts the dialogue that would ensue “if someone traded for Who and What and other players.” Funny for fans of Who's On First even if you're not a...
If you search the web to determine the etymology of the phrase piggy bank, you'll quickly conclude that there is little disagreement over its origin. Many web pages give the...