Back in the olden days before the name change, I guess one could have twee tweets with a sweetie?

"Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa" (intoned while beating one's breast).

Anachronistic or facetious now, but a formal way of begging forgiveness once upon a time.

In case the Greek and Semitic words made you think it, too, here's harass, which turns out not to be related. People can be harassed with cartoons, though.

I managed to come up with two places that speak of epsilontics, so I guess that's what an epsilontist would engage in. Here they are: https://www.wordsense.eu/epsilontic/ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/epsilontics If anyone cares to share just what those definitions might mean in plain English, I'd ...

No idea why I didn't say this when I first thought it, but...; wouldn't this fall nicely under the Grammar section? Words and how to use them, or not use them.

I knew it was Shakespeare's birthday, along with my brother's, but never knew UNESCO celebrated it, too. World Book and Copyright Day is April 23. Go read!

Should you so desire, you can read up on spanner, too.

Another one of those words that look like they should be related but aren't. Scarper is no kin. It's related to escape, which has different roots but similar letters.

Revisiting this suggestion I was reminded that it can also be a verb. Which gives us cartoonery, too. I see that it comes from the original idea of drawing such sketches on stiff paper, i.e. carton. Then it spread out from there. Speaking of Herblock, he designed a US postage stamp . It's not a cart...

Dick Dastardly was probably how I first came to know this word:



He ranks right up there with Snidely Whiplash:

For a word with no history we know of, finis sure has a good-sized family: finish, finite, finitude, finity, infinity, definite, etc.

I recently learned that some people have tried to give the etymology of picnic a racist bent, saying it comes from a game called Pick-a-N*****.

Whilst picking on Spiro Agnew, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In gave me the word tomentose , which I gather he deployed in some fashion. Judging from the definition and images, it means velutinous. https://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/glossary/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Tomentose.jpg Not exactly, but pr...

"We must go through a lot of tribulation". In case you're interested, I found a video recording of this cantata to spare others the tribulation of searching. Here it is, on youtube.

It is not merely US states that have parodies of legislatures, I dare say.

Politics aside, the parodies of Mel Brooks were sheer genius when they came out, and most remain so to this day.