I included the Urban Dictionary quote with the intent of gently getting my point across without stabbing someone with it: that the word called for was more likely "platonic"--i.e., feelings of affection without any implied progression to include physical or sexual components--rather than &...

I feel the same way about "podcast", even though apparently Dr. G. has one; thank goodness I have a wonderful and understanding 30-something daughter who does her best to keep me current on the lingo. It's nonetheless pretty much silk purse & sow's ear territory: I still catch myself g...

We in Northwest Arkansas have been called "hillbillies" for decades (except for the period--when Hillary and Billary went to Washington--when we had to get "spruced up" for the nation and briefly used the more formal epithet: "Hill Williams"). After which it felt good t...

According to Wikipedia, The American Dialect Society voted lifehack (one word) as the runner-up for "most useful word of 2005" behind podcast. The word was also added to the Oxford Dictionaries Online in June 2011 I'm sure that's true--although after trying for the umpteenth time to get a ...

That's a little too close to home for me, so please forgive the strident edge in this remark, but if the information is true as stated--and considering the source there's no doubt in MY mind about its veracity--then the MLKJr. estate has done more to keep Dr, King's most eloquent, stirring, and movi...

No doubt you're correct (but then there WAS a time when an American citizen could be imprisoned for quaffing a cold one). I bring it to the Alpha Agora's attention in the hopes that someone much (much, much) smarter than I could imagine ANY set of circumstances wherein one person would say to anothe...

I take it as some sort of Sign that: I would think of this word today; and upon searching through the Good Word Dictionary would find that it's apparently never been selected as a Good Word before. This being the case, it presents me with the unique opportunity to post this suggestion at 10:12 a.m. ...

My apologies for allowing the lingo of the architectural & construction trade to sneak over the threshold intended to keep it out of erudite discourse. A “knee wall” is, quite simply in this case, a perimeter wall that’s only about knee-high. Placing the base of the Quonset’s arch on this knee w...

A Quonset hut is a lightweight prefabricated structure that was typically made of corrugated galvanized steel attached to a metal superstructure having a semicircular cross-section, although during WWII, when steel was a strategic war material, variations were also made of wood or Masonite. The orig...

As the quintessential oxymoron "Social Security" has shown far too many of its enrollees, when your health depends upon it you're not far from "dearth's door".

I'd consider using it to describe an alcoholic drink with a niggardly amount of gin.

Whether it culminate in romance, or become the sophomoric "Woo-Woo" which, with an exagerated roll of the eyes, reference to the honeymoon night.

If residents of Michigan's Upper Peninsula are disparagingly called "Yoopers" by those from the "mitten" part of the state, why aren't those from the Lower Peninsula called "Elpers" (LPers) instead of "trolls" (or "Trolls")? Both parts of the state a...

Yes, the obvious meaning of IOU is, well, obvious. My curiosity is whether there's a story behind it, such as with OK/"oll korrekt". Did it just spring, full blown, from the head of Zeus or is it found in writings of the 1500s?

Idle curiosity, that's all.

shill/shilling; and neighbor