Whenever I go out, I take an avoska with me, just in case I spot something I might want to buy. But...
Author - Stephen Bullon
Lost or found in translation
Recently, we saw a lot of searches for the word bumbler. There was a massive spike which lasted...
Left, right, left, right.
The Eurozone crisis claimed another victim on 6 May when Nicolas Sarkozy became the eleventh...
Looking up “albeit”
One of the interesting things about English, and other languages too, for that matter, is that a...
Jerry
Here in Britain, we’ve been advised by a government minister to keep a jerrycan of petrol in...
Still looking up
Madonna’s recent moonlighting stint as a dictionaries marketing executive is still paying...
Madonna speaks
In 2011, there were 252 searches for the word reductive in the Macmillan Dictionary. So in the 7...
Another apostrophe bites the dust
The weekly roundup on Friday carries a link to a story about the renaming of a well-known chain of...
LOL? But it wasn’t funny
We get a few people looking up acronyms and initialisms used in emails and text messages, but there...
Grinch and Scrooge bid farewell to 2011
One of the top words looked up over the Christmas period was the word grinch. Most people know the...