• Names that suit their profession
    May 15 2026

    Certain names are very suitable to the job. For instance, Doctors Fillar, Aichen, and Chiew are dentists; Justice, Robb, and Law are lawyers; and researchers Haddock, Bass, and Herring are oceanographers.

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    10 min
  • Language Myths 8: The Whole Nine Yards
    May 5 2026

    The Holy Grail of phrase origins -- everyone has a favorite explanation in the search

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    12 min
  • LANGUAGE MYTHS 7: Son of a Gun, Spud, Throw the Baby out with the Bathwater, Tip, Turn the Tables, Wallop
    May 1 2026

    Part of a series about false explanations for proverbial words and phrase.

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    6 min
  • Language Myths # 6: Saved by the bell, Shit, Sincere, Skins, Sleep tight, Snob
    May 1 2026

    Again, more phony tales about the origin of popular words and phrase, with corrections.

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    7 min
  • Language Myths 5: Not Enough Room to Swing a Dead Cat, Not Playing with a Full Deck, Not Worth a Tinker's Damn, Posh, Rule of Thumb
    Apr 29 2026

    Even more phony explanations of how words and phrases originated.

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    8 min
  • Language Myths #4: Keep your nose to the grindstone, Let the cat out of the bag, Losing face, Mind your own beeswax, News
    Apr 28 2026

    More of the many language myths found on the internet about the origin of popular words and phrases

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    5 min
  • Language Myths #1: Above Board, amazon, Bigwig, Chairman, Chew the Fat
    Apr 26 2026

    Several phony stories about word and phrase origins

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    5 min
  • DOUBT and REDOUBT
    Apr 25 2026

    Is there a connection between doubt, redoubt, and redoubtable?

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    2 min