Odds and Sods

I have happened upon a number of interesting word-related thingies over the past week or so. As it’s been a while since I posted anything, I’ll share them with you here.

New words(?)

Merriam-Webster, regarded by many as the US dictionary has published its new edition, and has added some 100 new words. Naturally, some [...]

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 [...]