I’m OK, you’re OK
OK is a very strange word with an even stranger history. How did it become such a giant in world trading vocabulary?
Tag: etymology
English, across the zees
Oh, that hurt. I have Americanized my website, swapping esses for zees, swapping licence for license and removing that all-important letter u from color.
English’s tiny, moving parts
You would think English would throw up a shorter word than smidgen to mean something small or insignificant.
Dirty words lost in translation
There is so much regional variation in our language it is a wonder we understand each other at all. Though what interests me most is when words diverge into two paths, often close enough to be confused, and why so many of these words are so very naughty.