How would a person in the early 1600s call someone an idiot? "Half-wit" is tempting, but it turns out to date from a century-and-a-half later. "Chucklehead" is no good either (1731), but "blockhead" ...

In the current versions of the Oxford English Dictionary, the synonyms for 'woman' include some eye-poppingly sexist words: b***h, besom, piece, bit, mare, baggage, wench, petticoat, frail, bird, ...

I may as well be a biased reviewer of David Crystal's books given that Words in Time and Place is the 30th book by the author to find a place on my special Crystal shelf. The importance of this latest ...

After writing reviews for CrackBerry.com for almost year and a half, one would think that I would have run out of words a long time ago.Well..... I guess I did! Unless you're a wordsmith, a thesaurus ...