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This is the December version of the political threads that we have had since the end of August—I can't believe that it has been that lon...

Word of the Month: Index Our word of the month is composed of three compounds: Dolch (dagger), Stoß (stab, thrust), and Legende (legen...

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 ...