Words

Mind Your Language

Where did ‘husband’ come from?

Whereas I as a housewife enjoy a comparatively transparent label, any husband’s title is obscure

Dot Wordsworth

Wake up, babe, new Dot Wordsworth just dropped

Drop is having a creative time at the moment

Dot Wordsworth

Are we still doing phrasing?

In our irony-sodden age, children may be the last reminder that words mean something

Billy McMorris

We ought to banish more words

The phrase ‘Wait. What?’ is the verbal equivalent of a double take

Dot Wordsworth

Politics

Joe Biden and the realities of the N-word

The unspeakable utters the unsayable

Paul du Quenoy