As I am in the habit of doing, I found myself in an idle moment the other day musing upon why the Scottish football team (that would be ’soccer’ to my American readers) Glasgow Celtic is pronounced with a soft c (an ’s’, in effect) rather than following the usual convention of the hard ‘c’ [...]

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Has Tom lost his mind? Surely everyone knows what a Trojan is? Yeah, maybe – maybe not. I’m going to tell you anyway. To get the obvious out of the way, a Trojan [...]

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You know the situation. You’re sitting around chatting with friends about the new closed-circuit TV cameras going up in the high street and it’s not long before one of them will say “It’s [...]

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Nimrod – coming from Hebrew and pronounced as you see it – was originally a proper noun. Nimrod was a Mesopotamian king, apparently the great-grandson of Noah (he of ark fame). He [...]