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Well, it’s taken a while but it’s here at last! Christmas – for word nerds at least – has come. … Continued

Let us attempt to declutter the dismal organ that passes for my brain by beginning with DebraSmith75’s ‘recognotice’, which she

MiniNinja has sent me ‘duffin’. Not a duffin, alas, but I’ll take an addition to my word store in lieu

I think I’d like to commonise ‘commonise’, a submission from slartibartfast. Why? Well, partly because you already pretty much understand

I don’t know if it speaks to my lack of imagination, education or religious inclination that my first thought on

Well, hello again! And how’ve you been? I was fine until I heard someone on Radio 4 not only use

Hello again! And how’ve you been? I am a near-broken woman after London Fashion Week – not that my body,

Another alternate Friday, another column picking the choicest blooms from the bouquet of offerings submitted to the stern-faced lexicographers at

Ay caramba (remember that one?)! So many submissions, so little time. I’ve been absolutely spoiled for choice but, as I