For some months now I have been producing an audio word a day. While it's popularity is growing, I find that many people aren't equipped to get each episode by podcast or RSS. That's why I have begun an email notification list. People who don't know or care what podcasting or RSS are, can download a...

A few weeks ago, while producing one of my podictionary episodes I came across in the Oxford English Dictionary a citation in an obscure dialectical dictionary from 100 years ago. It is called "A Blegburn Dickshonary." A kind listener gave me a copy and since the copyright has reverted to ...

I took a closer look at the OED. The trajectory of this word appears to have begun as the sound a hog makes (or made) "grunt" circa 725, then around 1400 have been a diminutive of the same sound as "gruntle" (the OED here says this denotes sounds of animals, rarely people) then b...

Since "gruntle" was also a word meaning the human face around 500 years ago, what do you make of the theory that "disgruntled" is to have an unpleasant expression on one's face due to being displeased?