By Curtis Honeycutt My kids still don’t know that Santa can’t live at the North Pole. There’s no land underneath the ice sheets that melt
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Optical illusion opposites: exploring the meaning of pseudoantonyms
By Curtis Honeycutt I have a new friend who lived in Kenya for most of his life. He speaks about a dozen languages conversationally. Of
Revisiting the home name game: go Hoosiers!
By Curtis Honeycutt I love being at home. It’s where I sleep. It’s where I write. Home is where I watch Netflix. It’s an amazing
Grammar Guy: The back-word world of semordnilaps
The back-word world of semordnilaps By Curtis Honeycutt We all know examples of palindromes: taco cat, racecar, kayak, Hannah. A palindrome is a word that,
Why the meddling middle letters in ‘ladder’ matter
By Curtis Honeycutt I live in a house built around the year 1890. My neighborhood is called “Old Town,” for obvious reasons. The other day
The latest words from across the pond
By Curtis Honeycutt There’s a good reason I haven’t shared a roundup of new dictionary words in a while – the people over at Merriam-Webster
A handy-dandy guide to reduplicative words
By Curtis Honeycutt I promise I’m not trying to get this song stuck in your head, but its lyrics illustrate the language term I want
When a word is itself – or is it?
By Curtis Honeycutt I like to think of myself as a logical person, but as I dig into the English language, I find that much
The hall of fame of the aptly named
By Curtis Honeycutt Have you ever met a married couple who start to resemble each other over a period of time? Or how about someone
Is it OK to write ‘okay’?
By Curtis Honeycutt I’m from Oklahoma, the state which had the best state song until Ray Charles’ “Georgia” became The Peach State’s official song in