A Walk in the WoRds

From James Harbeck's book Songs of Love & Grammar : Dim innuendos A sweet musician in a bar said, "Boy, I think you...

Futility Closet is one of my regular reads and I especially enjoy the "In a Word" posts. Last week one of the featured words wa...

I happened to have seen these two logos within an hour or so of each other yesterday and I was struck by the similarity between them. Whil...

To walk, or not to walk: the answer doesn't always look the same. Here is a link to 23 additional images of pedestrian signals from aro...

If ♥ is pronounced "heart", and defined as a transitive verb meaning "to love" (as mentioned in a previous post ), then...

♥ According to a recent post on Johnson , The Economist 's language blog, the Oxford English Dictionary recently added a new "sens...

This falls under the following categories: Where have I been all of my life? And You learn something new every day. My son came home from sc...

License Plate Quiz Custom license plates (sometimes called vanity plates ) often make use of a combination of letters and numbers to convey ...

From an e-mail I received (talk about having fun with semiotics ). We all know those cute little computer symbols called 'emoticons'...

In yesterday's post about the name of T-Pain's album (THR33 RINGZ), I referred to the use of the "3's" for the "E...