A Couple More Interesting Web Sites

Exactly as the title suggests (although I appreciate the term “interesting” is subjective).

First up is the website for Merriam-Webster, one of the most highly regarded US dictionaries. Yes, I know that I should be promoting British English but they have their language and I have mine. They probably think I talk funny, too. Every [...]

Irony

To quote from one of the BBC’s finest comedies ever made, Blackadder:

Blackadder: Baldrick, have you no idea what irony is? Baldrick: Yes, it’s like goldy and bronzy only it’s made out of iron.

Strangely enough, Baldrick is actually correct. The word Irony also exists as an adverb meaning “consisting of or containing iron, or [...]