epub |eng | 2012-08-19 | Author:David Crystal [CRYSTAL, DAVID]

Some further examples are given on p. 326. It remains a lexicological puzzle why some words were accepted and some rejected. We do not know how to account for the ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Lesley M. M. Blume

KERFUFFLE This flowery, old-fashioned word for a “commotion” or “disturbance” is particularly amusing when the kerfuffle in question is not particularly flowery. KETTLE OF FISH When you landed in this ...

epub |eng | 2012-04-09 | Author:Harry Oliver [Harry Oliver]

Writing is on the Wall To say ‘the writing is on the wall’ is to warn of impending disaster. The phrase has Old Testament origins. Daniel 5:4 tells how King ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-08-27 | Author:Christopher J. Moore

WAGs (noun phrase) A frankly silly acronym and phrase coined by newspaper copy editors to describe the pampered wives and girlfriends of rich soccer players. On the subject of acronyms ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-31 | Author:Crystal, David

Central, middle; coming between the eldest and youngest in age. From Cumberland: ‘Is that t’auldest lad er youngest?’ ‘It’s nowder, it’s middlemer’. mim (adjective) Berkshire, Cornwall, Durham, Ireland, Norfolk, Northumberland, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ina Lipkowitz

Creme Boylede Take creme or mylke, & brede of paynemayn, or ellys of tendyr brede, an breke it on þe creme, or ellys in þe mylke, an set it on ...

mobi |eng | 2011-12-08 | Author:

fraud [frɔːd] the crime of getting money by not telling the truth gang [gæŋ] an organized group of criminals gun [gʌn] a weapon that shoots bullets homicide (mainly American English) ...

mobi |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Jenny Baranick [Baranick, Jenny]

10 Mary Ann or Ginger: Punctuation with Quotation Marks The girl next door or the voluptuous vamp? Perky or sexy? Short shorts or plunging neckline? Exclamation point or question mark? ...

epub |eng | 2009-05-05 | Author:Patricia T. O'Conner & Stewart Kellerman [O'Conner, Patricia T. & Kellerman, Stewart]

Don’t Know Much About Herstory If you’ve seen the musical South Pacific, you’ll remember the on-again, off-again romance between Nellie, the Navy nurse, and Émile, the rich planter. During an ...

epub |eng | 2010-12-14 | Author:Ralph Keyes [Keyes, Ralph]

Never Say “Die” When it comes to death, the euphemistic fog becomes nearly impenetrable. The dead are no longer with us. They left the building. Kicked the bucket. Bought the ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Justin Cord Hayes [Cord Hayes, Justin]

grin ORIGINAL DEFINITION: showing the teeth due to pain or anger NEW DEFINITION: show the teeth in a smile Sometimes it can be painful to hold a grin for too ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Erin Moore [Moore, Erin]

So friends, let it be our endeavour To make each by each understood; For few can be good, like the clever, Or clever, so well as the good. Ginger In ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-26 | Author:Gooden, Philip [Gooden, Philip]

These, and countless others, were the books taken up by the expanding middle classes. The flourishing printing presses, which fed the appetite for reading by turning out not only novels ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-14 | Author:Leo Rosten

Pronounced MOTT-seh (not MOTT-so), to rhyme with “lotsa.” Hebrew: The plural in Hebrew is matzot, pronounced MOTT-sez in Yiddish. Unleavened bread (it comes in thin, flat, ridgy oblongs and is ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-11 | Author:O'Conner, Patricia T.,Kellerman, Stewart. [O'Conner, Patricia T.,Kellerman, Stewart.]

Don’t Know Much About Herstory If you’ve seen the musical South Pacific, you’ll remember the on-again, off-again romance between Nellie, the Navy nurse, and Émile, the rich planter. During an ...