Author Archives: mike_words

I wish, you wish, we all wishcycle; of henges, stone and otherwise

Putting “to spindle” on a spike; why solecisms are for rubes

My favorite new-to-me words and etymologies of 2020

Confronting “tergiversation”; dismissing “mass” and sticking with “mumpsimus”

Delighting in “epicaricacy”; “valedictorians” who take their leave

Delivering “carside”; a “limp” origin

Finding “blackout art”; building “cinder blocks”

googly “eyebombing”; advocating for “avocado”

That contemporary feeling of “acedia”; the “pooh-bah” of Victorian opera.

A valetudinarian’s concern for health; unburying various sense of “mummy”