What’s in a name?
I pour myself a tumbler of rotgut and settle in with the names, these glorious names
Life
Modern English
The English language as written today is often nearly incomprehensible on first reading
Americans, London needs you
I wonder if London — or any of the great cities — will ever be the same again?
The link between spick and span, spanking and spoon
Whatever spick and span reminds us of, it is as an idiom with a cheery meaning of its own
Bog bodies: mysteries of the Iron Age
There is a theory in Ireland that the country’s bog bodies may be the remains of failed kings, ritually killed on Samhain
I’m back for the Almanac
Benjamin Franklin’s masterpiece goes on forever