Tip of the Tongue

  [Dog in moonlight*] Meaning is contextual. In the case of words, the form, position and connected modifiers define their actual significan...

Shakespeare, among others, is famous for inventing new words, such as bedazzled and addiction . As historically interesting this proces...

Numbers have significance well beyond their quantitative meaning.   For example, the term 24/7 is universally understood to mean around th...

English is famous (or infamous) for words having multiple meanings, some with no apparent connection with them.   A charming subgroup of s...

George Carlin, a man obsessed by the search for truth, had a notable routine about the common misuse of phrases. In itself, it is quite int...