By Curtis Honeycutt I’ve written before about mondegreens — music lyrics people mishear. Many of you mistake Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” line as “Hold me
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Let’s give these words another try
By Curtis Honeycutt Do you ever hear yourself use a word or phrase that makes you say, “I am becoming my parents?” It happens to
Skip to the endonym
By Curtis Honeycutt Don’t you love it when linguistics and geography collide? No, I’m not talking about the town of Noun, Alaska, where people, places,
Stuck in the middle with you
By Curtis Honeycutt Are you ready for a linguistic adventure that blurs the lines of words and verbal volleyball? Buckle up, buttercup, because things are
How verbal hedges can get you out of yard work
By Curtis Honeycutt At the dawn of every springtime, I make a list of things I want to do in my lawn and garden. This
Do you suffer from dontopedalogy?
By Curtis Honeycutt At one of my previous jobs, we passed around a special trophy. The trophy had to be earned in an unusual way.
These words are counting on you
By Curtis Honeycutt I’ve always been a numbers guy. In elementary school, if anyone made fun of my disproportionately large head, I would withhold answers
The loneliest words in the dictionary
By Curtis Honeycutt Talking about unpaired socks is like talking about the need to eat food — it happens to everyone. Anyone in the history
There’s some extra pleonasm on your shirt
By Curtis Honeycutt In the “Ghostbusters” movies, the eponymous heroes blast ghosts and otherworldly beings with their proton packs, and the ghosts explode into a
The best of both (hybrid) words
By Curtis Honeycutt Our family bought a minivan last year. With child number three on the way, we needed more room for car seats and