There seems to be a rash of “word(s) of the year” around this time of year. Fine by me – at least I can guarantee something to write about around Christmas! This month, it falls to the Macquarie Dictionary of Australian English. You may remember that last year’s poll gave us the splendid “muffin top” [...]

Hello there. Reports of my exit from the blogosphere have been greatly exaggerated!
Whilst it’s true I have been something of a lazy slug recently, I hope to post a bit more than I have been doing in the past couple of weeks. If you don’t mind, I intend to expand the content of this organ [...]

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I’ve been meaning to do this one for a while. Cruciverbalist is a word constructed from two Latin words, crucis (cross) and verbum (word). In case that wasn’t a big enough clue, it [...]