Playing In The Word Farm

The last word… On Sunday, November 6, 2011 , Stan Hopton left his earthly vessel to join our Lord in Heaven. He lost a battle with lun...

I schott some words into the air and they fell everywhere. Most unread. Therefore we are taking an extended break. We may even come back!!

Puns For The Literate 1. King Ozymandias of Assyria was running low on cash after years of war with the Hittites. His last great possession ...

Feeling a bit under the weather. Went to see the doctor. He was very encouraging. He said, "The trouble is in your breathing and we...

"The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories" offers a rare glimpse into the early years of acclaimed La Jolla children’s author Theod...

National Punctuation Day is a great day to celebrate commas and apostrophes and all those oher funny marks! Feeling uneasy about mystery quo...

It is almost Saturday! What awaits? ***** Many folks seem to be enamored with Nostradamus as a prophet or "foreteller" of future e...

Twain House Dining Room ***** Coming in one week! The answer! ***** Curatorial Staff Makes A Mark Twain Discovery Margin Notes Written By Th...

Another hint...or what? ***** The Nautical Roots of 9 Common Phrases The Vikings, Columbus, the Pilgrims … they all arrived here by ship. So...

50 Most Annoying Americanisms Why do they hate us (U.S. citizens)? The most common answer has always been that they hate our freedom, but I ...

I don’t get it. Why are the terms United States and America used interchangeably? The United States is part of America, which is why it’s ca...

Between you and me or you and I? A common mistake in spoken English is to say ‘between you and I’, as in this sentence: X It’s a...

Now that Irene has left us we are breathing easier. Our biggest inconvenience was lack of power. The lights went out early Sunday morning an...

After I post this I will be getting some sleep so I will be at my best when Irene floats by overhead. It is probably useless to pray for cal...

“Crash Blossoms” are ambiguous headlines that can be quite funny. They result from the space-saving technique of leaving out articles, conju...

Everybody dreams, but most of the time our dreams are nothing more than the subconscious mind processing thoughts and feelings from our waki...

A friend recently pointed me to a linguistic term that I hadn’t seen before: eggcorn (or egg corn). It seems that in certain dialects eggcor...

Once again it is time for the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest ! Here is the Grand Prize winner and a sampling of some of the punnier entrie...

We haven't had a good spoonerism in a long time! Here you go! Ali Theeva and the Forty Babs by Colonel Stoopnagle Tunce upo...

You probably know that numismatists study and collect coins and currency, and you may even know that philatelists study and collect stamps. ...