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In a classic Calvin & Hobbes strip (okay, technically they’re all classics–Bill Watterson is a genius) Calvin tells Hobbes that he likes to “verb words”. It’s the process of taking nouns and adjectives and turning them into verbs. He even gives an example: “Remember when ‘access’ was a thing? Now, it’s something you do.”
Having had pagan friends for most of my life, I’ve been familiar with the holiday Samhain, but it wasn’t until I looked it up that I realized it was not, at least to modern pagans, October 31st, but the day after, November 1st. I’m not sure why this is, although maybe the answer lies in [...]
In contemporary society we often take a very lighthearted look at folk beliefs, particularly spirits and “little people”, even though at one time people believed in and took mythical creatures very seriously. The evolution of the term pixie is an excellent example of this. The Oxford English Dictionary is fuzzy on the term’s origins. Like [...]
Sometimes jokes go too far. The Wisconsin Tourism Federation, which, as Chris Matyszczyk reports, created its name “30 years ago, when the Web was not even a thought in the mind’s eye of an engineering spider” has had to change its name because some bloggers have been having fun with the acronym. The new name [...]
One of the qualities of paganism is that everything–stone, tree, house, sometimes even a room–has its own resident spirit that doesn’t just watch over it. The spirit inhabits the space. The Russian ovinnik, for instance, is a mischievous, even destructive, creature that, according to Russian pagan belief, inhabited the barn (the threshing barn where grain [...]
There were a few times in high school that I was called a nerd, a label that never quite fit me. I was a geek. And there is a difference, although such labels are sometimes meaningless. In spite of what movies try to tell us high school, like the rest of life, is not really [...]
Here in the United States we call them cookies. Across the pond, in Britain, they’re called biscuits, and biscuit comes from the French word biscuit. Spelled the same, but it sounds differently, which the Oxford English Dictionary calls “a senseless adoption of the mod.Fr. spelling, without the Fr. pronunciation.” Maybe that explains why millions of [...]
If you were of a certain age, you watched the original The Electric Company. While just as hip (after all it had Morgan Freeman in the cast), if not always as surreal, as Sesame Street, The Electric Company was aimed at a slightly older crowd and focused on spelling and grammar, rather than just learning [...]
When I read about a man being cited for giving someone the finger, I remembered that the finger is also often called the bird. Every time I hear this I wonder why. It doesn’t look like a bird. Since it looks sort of like part of the male anatomy I can understand why it’s usually [...]
The perfect way to start the week: Strongbad introduces a dictionary that we can only wish was available in stores. If you want to be droppin’ your bad quotient quotables, check it out. It’s even booby-trapped with endless “see also” loops. |
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