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OK, I’ll admit it – I got the idea for this from the Harry Potter books. I’m actually quite glad I did, because it’s an interesting creature – even if entirely mythological. There [...]

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First of all, there will be no pictorial accompaniment to this post. When you’ve read it, you may like to suggest what I could use by way of illustration. Clean, inoffensive and practical [...]

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Blimey! So late with this, it almost became “word of tomorrow morning”! It’ll be a fairly quick effort but hopefully it will still entertain and amuse. The halcyon (pronounced hal-see-on) was a mythical [...]

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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 [...]

It’s those Greeks again! Only this time, the word has been almost directly lifted from the language. From antonomazein, the word means “to name differently”. The pronunciation stresses the first and second syllables, so reads something like: an-tonn-oh-may-sya (do let me know if my rubbish phonetics help or hinder your understanding. Thanks!).
In the real world, [...]