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So far, all Words of the Month have been compounds that hitch together two seemingly unrelated nouns. This month, I’m introducing a word of ...

The PUMA thread has far outlived its initial topic, but there seems to exist a real desire among some of my readers to continue a discussion...

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 ...