Alliteration

You will probably already know this one, but hey – it’s a lot of fun to write about! You may also have thought that alliteration was as simple as “why wouldn’t we want wool” – the repetition of the initial letter of every word in a given sequence – but this is quite far from [...]

Yclept

A “quick and dirty” definition today, as I have a lot of work and a little of the day left. It may help if I managed my time better, but such stuff dreams are made of!

Yclept, then is simply a fancy and archaic method of saying “called” or “named as”. It’s pronounced ee-klept, with [...]

Shag

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