Not long ago, I was chatting online with a friend, and something made me laugh, and I realized I wasn't sure how to type that. I often use heh or...
From an article about rescued Chinese miners: But today rescuers hailed a miracle as they pulled more than 100 miners to safety after eight days trapped underground. They had survived...
Heard an unintentionally funny line on the radio this morning: "There's only one person who can answer this, and that's y'all." —Car Talk caller, 4 April 2010. Of course, "y'all"...
Recently saw a spam subject line that I thought said "Succeed in a truth economy." Which brought all sorts of interesting science fictional ideas to mind. Until I saw that...
Sometime around the beginning of March, I came across the word theophory, which Wikipedia says is "the practice of embedding the name of a god or a deity in, usually,...
Yet another in the long list of dictionaries/glossaries available online: a Publishing Dictionary, in which literary agent Jessica Faust provides definitions of a few dozen publishing-related terms....
According to the Dictionary of Occupational Titles, a manugrapher's job is to trace and paint advertising material, including lettering. Which is pretty much what one might expect from the roots...
The alphabet game involves trying to find a written instance of each letter of the alphabet while traveling by car. Sometimes the rules require that the letters appear only on...
Recently encountered an annotated transcription of a podcast from 2007 covering a wide variety of Australian slang terms....
Recently happened across two useful online glossaries, probably while editing a story: Glossary of military terms and slang from the Vietnam War. Wiktionary's Glossary of military slang....