Who was the Bob whose name is immortalized in Olympic sport of bobsled? SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. Sometimes two people, sometimes four, push their sled frantically from the start li

The Oxford English Dictionary etymology for slang begins by saying that it is "of cant origin."nbsp; I wouldnrsquo;t have known what ldquo;cant originrdquo; meant before I started digging through dictionaries. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings onli

Connie wrote to ask if the word blah was from Spanish. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. More specifically, herersquo;s what she said: ldquo;I was wondering about the similarity of the soun

I can picture the word idiot like a slinky descending the stairs. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. The wordrsquo;s roots were Greek, then Latin, then it was French, then it was English.nbs

I see that Google has now jumped into the dictionary game. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. Well I guess Google have been in the dictionary game for a long time but now theyrsquo;ve formal

Some people love getting joke emails but I try to avoid it; itrsquo;s hard enough to stay focused. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. I did get one recently full of odd newspaper clippings a

Depending where you are in the world, smoking tobacco is seen as highly social or highly anti-social. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. Believe it or not smoking opponents and the tobacco l

Today's podictionary episode is an interview with Adam Jacot de Boinod author ofnbsp; The Wonder of Whiffling (and Other Extraordinary Words in the English Language). SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE fo

Next time you go to log on somewhere and canrsquo;t remember your password, consider this:nbsp; In the Roman army of 2000 years ago if you forgot your password it was lights out for you. The Roman army didnrsquo;t pussyfoot around they killed you. SPONSO

The word karaoke is a kind of ping-pong-ball word in that its elements have bounced back and forth across western and eastern cultures. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. A few weeks ago at