Even making this a blog entry implies that i care more than I do, so I already regret writing it.  The issue; I don't think people realize that "segueway" isn't a word.  IE, saying that "this is a nice segueway into that" does not mean there is a smooth transition between this and that.  "Segue" will do just fine, please.  You're thinking of the " ( Read more... )

I have a number of ongoing mental word games I play that I make up myself.  They are games of criteria, where I have a set of conditions and keep running track of the best word I've thought of that fulfills the criteria.  Progress is slow in these games because I do not try to look up answers on the internet.

One game is to start with a one letter ( Read more... )

Full disclosure: I hold advertisements up to an unfairly high standard of quality and usually only get irritated by them when I am feeling irritable and want to pick something apart.

Two guys in a commercial are watching another guy running around in a bullpen being attacked by a bull.
Guy 1: What's he doing?
Guy 2: He said something about not driving ( Read more... )

Besides the new “Hum’rous Corner” tag for this blog, I will be implementing a “Language” tag. As in “Language>: that first sentence was poorly constructed”. Haha just kidding [I will be using the “Language” tag for all entries relating to words and language. Linguistics and etymology are fascinating to me and I write about them (it?) often. The ( Read more... )