Ozwords reminds us that Australians eat ‘biscuits’ and not ‘cookies’. In true Australian fashion though, ‘biscuits’ have received the traditional abbreviation and become ‘bikkies’. Go to Ozwords and find out the background to an assortment of slang expressions including ‘stiff bikkies’ and ‘big bikkies’, learn how ‘Jatz crackers’ may not be referring to a small …
TSUNDOKU (JAPANESE) n. Leaving a book unread after buying it, typically piling up together with other unread books. This is from an illustrated selection of foreign language words that should be incorporated into English because there’s no single word English equivalent. We need this one around my house. It sounds nicer than ‘hoarder’. (Edited for …
Logophiles may already know some of these. Mental Floss features twenty-five words whose purpose is to describe the nature of other words. Two examples: EMORDNILAP If a palindrome is a word or phrase that spells the same backwards as forwards, then an emordnilap is a word that spells a completely different word when it is …
Apart from my legendary dislike of camping, beaches and bush walks, I’m also not a big fan of board games. My wife will probably play at least one game of Scrabble when we’re away on holidays. Apparently Scrabble has recently let a whole bunch of so-called words into its official dictionary. With the slow death …
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