Words of War
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The military origins of many everyday words, names, and phrases.
Slang: The Pop Culture of Language
According to Poet Carl Sandburg, “slang is the language that takes off it’s coat, spits on it’s hands, and goes to work”.
On Conks, Conking Out and Punches Up the Conk
Barry Carozzi indulges his love of words and the stories of their origins once again.
Dictionary of Word Origins
The deep prehistory of our language has nurtured little word seeds that over the millennia have proliferated into widely differentiated families of vocabulary.
