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So far, I have been talking exclusively about topics that do not belong to my specific field of expertise, architecture and design—I have be...

This is what a reader posted yesterday on an xword blog: "I remain impressed with how non-native English speakers adopt the language so...

A Notnagel (lit. "emergency nail" or "nail in need") is an iron nail carried by firefighters of old—to be used when an ...

In an xword blog today, I introduced pumas ("party unity my ass" people) merely as a humorous aside. But apparently, it struck a ...

The indefatigable marlene has opend the discussion on another German poet who is of great interest to me, too. I will chime in after trying ...

This blog may need some comic relief. So, here is a poem by me that started out as a parody of Emily Dickinson. But I could not really get t...

Word of the Month: Index This word is different from the ones I talked about before: I had never heard it used until someone mentioned it o...