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Thanks once again to Daphne, a regular reader and rapidly becoming a regular contributor on this blog! The thanks are not only for this excellent piece but for spontaneously helping me out in what has been a very busy week. So without further ado… [...] 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 [...] Maybe if you’ve been living in a cave, or as a goatherd in deepest Kazakhstan you won’t have heard of Google. Not an unusual word these days, but an interesting story. Google is now a verb as well as a trade name – it was added to the Oxford English Dictionary this year – to [...] A spoonerism is the transposition of the beginning syllables of two or more words – often for comic effect. The unfortunate fellow who gave his name to this strange speech impediment was one Reverend William Archibald Spooner, a one-time Warden of New College, Oxford. He has had many sayings attributed to him, many of which [...] |
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