You know that a kangaroo jumps around on its hind legs and carries its babies in a pocket. Sponsor: Hold your meetings online for just $49 a month Try GoToMeeting free. In that it carries its babies in its pocket a kangaroo is like m

I recently saw Google referred to as a benevolent behemoth. If you look at their corporate philosophy they even have a section titled You can make money without doing evil. Sponsor: Hold your meetings online for just $49 a month Try G

I hope that when you listen to podictionary you donrsquo;t find it garbled. Sponsor: Hold your meetings online for just $49 a month Try GoToMeeting free. The usual meaning we attribute to the word is that the sound quality of a message

I recently listened to a podcast from BBC History Magazine in which Neil MacGregor, Director of The British Museum talked about world history. To paraphrase, he said that in todayrsquo;s world a Eurocentric view of history is out of place. A measure of t

I first did this word more than 4 years ago and at the time it wasnrsquo;t all that popular a word. Sponsor: Hold your meetings online for just $49 a month Try GoToMeeting free. I had first come across it when beginning to post in web fo

Why is it that meteorology is the study of weather instead of the study of meteors? The study of meteors is called "meteoritics" and fits in under astronomy which includes the study of lots of other things astronomical. The root of the word "meteorology

The Devilrsquo;s Dictionary defines a cat as ldquo;A soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.rdquo; The Oxford English Dictionary gives an enormous host of examples of languages in which t

Vic wrote me saying that at a dinner party hersquo;d heard that the word okay was the most frequently used word in the English language. Sponsor: Hold your meetings online for just $49 a month Try GoToMeeting free. This is something known

Sponsor: Hold your meetings online for just $49 a month Try GoToMeeting free. In 1762, after Samuel Johnson had already achieved fame, ldquo;[his] friend Sir Joshua Reynolds paid a visit of some weeks to his native country, Devonshire, in

The people who make it their job to ride horses in races got their professional title through a mixture of love and hate. Sponsor: Hold your meetings online for just $49 a month Try GoToMeeting free. To begin with the title jockey was once