When I was young and I was likely to be late for anything my Mother used to say to me; "come on and jig weasels." It meant I had to hurry up. Does anyone know where this expression originated?...
There was a documentary on Peter Rice, "An Engineer Imagines", on TV. (Still available to watch for 28 days.) One of the contributors said, "Nothingness is the meeting place of the noble traveller." I...
it's long been a source of irritation to me that these words seem to be used wrongly in documents where it would appear to make more sense to use them the other way round. For instance, when I go...
I am producing a 2022 Calendar. Should the words bank holiday be in capitals on the monthly calendar pages? I'm thinking that Early Spring Bank Holiday, Spring Bank Holiday, Platinum Jubilee Bank...
No one seems to know which is the correct usage of 'spitting image' and its variations, nor its source. There's some information and speculation here:...
When I lived in Wales many years ago, I came across many people who would say the word "landed" in a sense that I've never heard or seen elsewhere since. As an example, a parent of a child would say...