Thanks once again to Daphne, a regular reader and rapidly becoming a regular contributor on this blog! The thanks are not only for this excellent piece but for spontaneously helping me out in what has been a very busy week. So without further ado…
Mondegreen is not the name of a French ecological movement, but is [...]

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Yes, we’re starting the post in bold italics today. There is a reason, thanks for asking. I am handing over (with some trepidation, I might add) to a guest blogger who will regale [...]

I have a confession to make. There is a reason why this word appears in my list of words. It’s not that I can find out much about the etymology of the word, nor is it because it’s particularly fascinating. More of which later.
The word is of dubious origin – another piece of dead-end research [...]