My word processor changes the form of dashes to something longer sometimes – becomes —. I change it back sometimes. I’m obsessed by punctuation. I bought and read a book on the semi-colon, and love using Oxford commas. This article on Mental Floss outlines the dash or hyphen, the en-dash, and the em-dash (both named …
This Mental Floss article on thirteen archaic terms for burn-out caught my attention. For some reason. If I have to pick a favourite it’d be “Overcark” an “obsolete term from the 14th century means “overwork.” According to the OED, it was created by combining the word over with the word cark, meaning “that which burdens …
You can’t use this for Scrabble, but here is a Japanese word for comfort eating.
Sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees. But what about the wood or the jungle? This article on Mental Floss is about the differences between the three terms. Cutting to the chase: To summarize, forests are historically and colloquially considered to be larger than woods, and scientifically considered to be more dense. Jungles …
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