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Abandon, the First Word
My heart breaks somehow. How late it was that the first English dictionary was published. 1604. Can you fathom how late that is? We’re talking well after Chaucer, and even after Shakespeare began....
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Words, Words, Words
Do you ever find yourself jotting down random words at a moment’s notice–not sentences, but just disconnected words? I use little moleskine notebooks to write in while I’m away from my laptop. It...
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my word for the day (if I can limit myself)
LACONIC Read its etymology recently? Originally it refered to people from Lakonia, an area around Sparta, whose inhabitants were famously terse. Better than terse. The story goes that when Philip of...
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