I always thought of carom to mean bouncing a ball off another in a calculated move. You see pool players (or at least I did when we had a miniature table at home way back when) calculating angles before taking their turn. Careening , to me, always meant flying off wildly. Think of joyriding teenager...

Took me a minute to decipher the headline.

Scatology should be about singing songs you don't know the words to.

David Myer: I would have wondered what a schwa had to do with eating! :lol: And thanks for saving me the task of trying to translate that lyric. :) And the poems were great. They remind me of a book I may have mentioned long ago, Anguish Languish ("English Language"), which was a somewhat ...

I've noticed that, Slava. Most unfortunate.

I know quite a few West Africans, who tend to say weckum for "welcome," but other than that I haven't noticed anyone having any problem pronouncing the L. Tawk, though, is universal...

I had to chuckle at today's Good Word, because what immediately came to mind was flatus. I see George thought like I did.

Wow, it's been a long time. I'll try to get back to posting more often, maybe daily.

How is this related to impediment?

I was wondering the same thing...

There might be a hint of baloney's transformation to mean "nonsense" in Oscar Mayer's old slogan: "Real baloney, not phony baloney." Maybe it started out as just rhyming slang?

The great I am. Hmm. In Australia (and it may not be unique to here) we had a senior businessman with an over-inflated ego. He was known as Fig Jam - an acronym for "Fxxk I'm great. Just ask me". I wonder if the concept was created here or is widely used elsewhere as well? I've actually h...

Three words I always associate with one another are vituperation, vitriol, and invective. I've seen other forms of the first two but never any other form of invective, though, and I've very rarely heard it, only seen it in print.

Never heard or saw toodle-pip before. I've heard and seen, to paraphrase an old cartoon, "toodle-oo, pip-pip, cheerio, and all that rot" many times before.

I'm inclined to believe that the Portuguese name for the bird, peru, comes from some sound the bird makes other than gobbling... but I'm no expert.

My South Carolina-born dad used to love to say things like "time to mosey on out of here."