Girl Talks Backwards (Sdrawkcab Sklat Lrig)
This young lady has a gift — useless, yes, but astonishing nonetheless. How does she do it? Does …
Read MoreDepartment of Redundancy Department, Part 3: When Repetition Is OK
In our previous two discussions of redundancy, we covered tautology, which is using different words to say the same …
Read MoreShakespeare’s Most Amazing Word
The Oxford English Dictionary attributes somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 words to William Shakespeare. He was certainly among the greatest word-coiners of all time, but his most fascinating word was not actually a coinage.
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