OED
That Beano word ‘scoff’ was first coined in the mid-19th century
Scarcely a sober breath has been drawn in my house all week for celebrating the 90th anniversary of the completion…
Wuthering
Haworth is in a constant simmer of Brontë anniversary fever. It is looking forward to Emily Brontë’s 200th birthday next…
Box set
There is no chance whatsoever of box set being replaced by the more correct form boxed set. So stop seething…
Bitter
‘Don’t mind if I do,’ is one of husband’s stock phrases — jokes he would think them — in this…
Hopefully
There was outrage last week when it was found that the Oxford English Dictionary had listed one sense of literally…
