I recently chanced across this rather peculiar sketch (I believe from the 1970s), which formed part of the Dick Emery Show . The joke here i...

Readers of this blog cannot fail to have noticed (mainly because I keep saying it!) that I rather like the passive voice. I have always wond...

See if you can make sense of this.... “I was tossing broads on the backstretch at Saratoga. There was a fly gee in the tip with a big mittf...

A computer hacker is, as everyone knows, a computer programmer, probably a ‘geek’ , who undertakes malicious and possibly illegal activities...

I received (nay, I demanded with menaces!) a copy of the new three volume Green’s Dictionary Of Slang from my dearest beloved as a Christma...

Bigotgate, Cleggmaina, rodents and Spoonerisms. A summary of some of the words that featured in the reporting of UK politics this year: BBC ...

The 1950 Manchester Guardian stylebook gravely listed "Americanisms" to avoid, including "aim to do" (instead of ...