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  • minced oaths
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  • words with odd spellings
  • eponymous fabrics or articles of clothing
  • Words and phrases of Irish origin, or commonly used in Irish English
  • soup words
  • buy a vowel
  • more syllables than you might think
  • weirdly pronounced british family or place names
  • not the sum of their parts
  • fake words, meant to be amusing
  • tom swifties
  • spin trick ham - road game for shy huck
  • chandler stinks
  • tom, dick and harry
  • all greek to me
  • statistical terms
  • winds of the world
  • that's just beastly!
  • so near and yet so far
  • chromatic phrases
  • amber words
  • quartets worth considering
  • anagrams
  • garden state words
  • denizens
  • Poetrie: Ballade of Good Doctrine to Those of Evil Life
  • beastly verbs
  • Spanish words and phrases
  • hybrid fruits and a few beasties too
  • words I wish I hadn't looked up
  • quiz time 2
  • hallelujah
  • Freestyle skiing words
  • Pogonology
  • Perceived linguistic gaps in English, and efforts to fill them
  • pouchy keen
  • XX-age
  • Things go better with some
  • fun with chemistry
  • quiz time 3
  • Finnish locative cases
  • Zippity doo-dah
  • Cryptozoology
  • gale force
  • remnants of a catholic childhood
  • Alexander the gander
  • frivolous units of measurement
  • Buggin' out
  • State of the Union
  • Schrödinger's cat and other famous scientific props
  • metaphysical metaphorical places
  • thigmo-words
  • Quiz time 4
  • My karma ran over my dogma
  • begins with a vowel
  • You gonna eat that?
  • Comparative Utility
  • Pernicious parasites
  • Small but deadly
  • Words from Table Talk's "Five Words" Contest
  • Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
  • Units
  • S is for sionnach
  • literary and screen collaborations
  • R is for restless
  • Because I like them : E --- F
  • What I thought wordies were before I discovered wordie
  • Courtesy of Josefa
  • fashion faux pas
  • that's just nasty
  • Sweet spirits of cats a-fighting
  • Change one letter
  • FEDCO
  • Your number's up.
  • Fun menu items
  • random furrin borrowings
  • faux amis
  • Because I like them: A -- B
  • the sound and the furry
  • Beastly adjectives
  • Because I like Them: G --- H
  • Because I Like Them : C --- D
  • faux comparatives
  • S-words
  • what's in a name
  • quiz time
  • Efficient phonemes
  • So you want to write for Entertainment Weekly?
  • Hocus-pocus, I see a crocus!
  • Odd musical names
  • Mark my word
  • this modern world
  • Eggcorns
  • Heraldry
  • metaphorical places
  • pidgin? or urban legend?
  • Words from "The Ghost Map"
  • Divine!
  • How do you like Kipling?
  • Regular polyhedra
  • Drop a deuce
  • Winter Holidays
  • A hive for the honey bee
  • derogatory terms I should use more often
  • Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition
  • Pigs on Parade
  • David's books about words and language
  • The Man Without Qualities
  • U -- V -- W
  • Quiz time 5
  • T-words
  • M or N?
  • Gossip Column
  • the exciting --ngh-- list
  • This intriguing novel .... is a taut, lyrical, tour de force.
  • Dewey, Cheatham and Howe
  • The jackboot of British imperialism
  • Truculent turtles
  • baby and neutered animal names
  • K -- L words
  • Recent additions
  • Avenue Q
  • Actors whose mere presence in a movie will cause me to change the channel immediately
  • O --- P words
  • Jose and Pedro Explain it All for You
  • Calendar Stories
  • Moon Unit, Diva Thin Muffin, and Fifi-Trixibelle
  • Extended Family
  • Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
  • fairyary
  • Dale counting sheep
  • Websites we have known and loved
  • *ddock
  • ZZZZZZZZZZ
  • The venereal vault
  • Bizarre Books
  • EEEEEUUUUU!!!! The cockpit of Europe.
  • E pluribus
  • Silence is golden
  • What ails you?
  • Quiz time 6
  • Widow's walk
  • Calques
  • Orphanage of neglected words, starved for attention.
  • Yosemite Samite
  • Defunct professions
  • Let's get back to our enraged sheep : grandma's in the nettles again
  • jack-of-all-trades
  • Tom Elvis Jedusor & friends
  • The poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, lugubrious Jesuit.
  • short-term parking
  • Laws of the Universe
  • Occupational hazards
  • backformations
  • Man ist was man ißt.
  • Lunfardo
  • Confessions of an English Opium Eater
  • Abominations
  • Truly obscure
  • Vive la France!
  • Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers
  • BUENOS AIRES
  • October List
  • Discovered in the Word Museum
  • Kenny kens kenning
  • Ovine affairs
  • X's Y, where X is not somebody's name
  • X's Y, where X is somebody's name
  • Effles and Fluffles
  • Obscure awards
  • El perro hace guau guau
  • Global Simplicity Advisory
  • Patently Obvious
  • Sandbox
  • Charlatania
  • Linguistic lagniappe
  • Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
  • Global Precipitation Alert
  • The R.W. Apple Jr. memorial list
  • Quiz time 8 - special groundhog edition
  • Doctor deterrents
  • The Crow Road
  • Life is just a four-letter word
  • Phantonyms
  • Who are these people?
  • Rectal Foreign Bodies
  • The literature of eschatology
  • BINGO!
  • Quiz time 7 : special Saturnalia edition
  • Global Stupidity Alert
  • Questions for the ages
  • Global Impossibility Advisory
  • Mr Lear and Mr Carroll
  • Un zorro en España
  • Fireships and Fizgigs
  • Monosyllabic adjectives ending in 'y'
  • Notes and Queries
  • Triple Homonyms
  • Barbarismos
  • Common Spanish words with more than one meaning
  • Las verduras
  • Search phrases by which people were referred to my blog
  • Poetrie: To my Pegasus
  • The Bizarre Confectionery Dispenser Diorama List
  • Burnt Umbrage
  • Bonebreakers and Mother-in-Law Killers
  • Why didn't I think of that?
  • Musa Pedestris
  • Scotch on the Rocks
  • Scotch Broth
  • Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
  • Slang : The People's Poetry
  • Encountered while reading
  • Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja
  • Proverbs
  • Global Sternutation Alert
  • Kipling pukes pickling cukes
  • Irish Names
  • Name that Puritan!
  • Manustupration
  • Un zorro en Santiago
  • DisenDat
  • 4Q2009
  • Un zorro en Buenos Aires
  • Hecko, reesetee!
  • Suitable Names for Female Pandas
  • Spanish idioms and proverbs
  • Spanish Dogs
  • Traduttore, Traditore
  • Crash Blossoms and Other Fun Headlines
  • The Iberian Cycle
  • Tonguetwisters from around the world
  • Figures of rhetoric from abuse to zeugma
  • Penguins and Pigeons
  • Everyone's a critic
  • Infinite Jest
  • Oh, google! You're so droll
  • Linkbait
  • Words that still give me trouble
  • Occupations grouped together with 'chicken sexer' by careers.org
  • Gamers and Fanboys and Furries, Oh My!
  • Carnivals and Circuses
  • Gods of the new millennium
  • The Roaring Twenties
  • Fear, Wrath and Good Hope : it's a great cape caper!
  • Helpful hints to avoid unit confusion
  • Bristols, bazongas and butter-bags on the balcony
  • We have saints for your complaints!
  • Bibliomania and related conditions
  • Tags featured on the "This or That!" web page
  • The language of the frogs
  • French vegetables
  • Search Phrases by Which People Were Referred to my Frogblog
  • Les bestioles qui rampent sur la terre
  • Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter!
  • Un renard à Paris
  • French fruits
  • Some of my favorite headlines from the Weekly World News
  • Things the Gmail-bot thinks I might be interested in checking out
  • Uses for Gooses
  • San Francisco "friends" suggested by Facebook
  • French gout and Spanish pox
  • Fragrances found at Etat Libre d'Orange Perfume Store
  • Korean Phrases Heard on QI
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