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In a prior thread, we briefly touched on cross-cultural idioms, a topic I find endlessly fascinating. I have always wanted to turn this into...

No matter what topic we start with, talk will turn eventually to food (happens on Rex's xword blog, too). Mac's mentioning of Gr...

Pictures of Americans crying for joy are going around the world and reactions from all over the world are pouring in: The image of America h...

Maulfaul —or mundfaul —is an adjective adding faul ("lazy") to Maul ("mouth" of animals) or Mund ("mouth" o...

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...