This is one of those words that reminded me of my school days. I hadn't heard it for years.
06th June 2017 7:06 AM
I heard a person describe another as a dingbat recently and my thoughts went back to my working days and to my days as a...
16th May 2017 7:05 AM
By the early 17th century anybody who made a laughing stock of himself to amuse others was called a zany.
09th May 2017 7:05 AM
Some people near me were heading for a blue when someone saw me and asked me to adjudicate.
28th March 2017 7:03 AM
I WENT to a public toilet the other day. Inside, on one of the cubicle doors, was a sign that said 'ambulant toilet'.
07th March 2017 9:03 AM
"Sheila” used to be Irish, but years ago the word was transported from Ireland to Australia and the word is now as...
21st Feb. 2017 5:02 AM
WHEN Friedrich Froebel came up with the idea of a kindergarten for children, he could not have envisaged that the word...
14th Feb. 2017 5:02 AM
I've learnt that short and long soup are not words that come from China at all.
07th Feb. 2017 5:02 AM
WILLY-nilly is an expression heard occasionally, usually meaning something like "in a disorganised fashion” but the...
31st Jan. 2017 5:01 AM
LITTLE kids are being enveloped in cotton wool these days and need to embrace the world around them.
14th Aug. 2016 3:08 PM
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