High-school students take note: your brains are actually changed by reading As You Like It.

Say what one will about 2010, did it accomplish one momentous thing: a backlash against the most disgusting phrase in the American lexicon?

Fellow food-and-word nerds, you're in luck!

The other day, a reader posed a query. "I'm trying to find the word that describes what I do right after I apply lipstick. Am I just "rubbing" my lips together? Am I "evening" the lipstick on my lips?"

A few months ago, I coined a meme which, I was convinced, could be huge. It wasn't.

Apparently the longest entry in the new Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary goes to the word "immediately," which has a whopping 265 synonyms with which to express our collective impatience and probably exaggerated sense of urgency. [TimesUK]

Shakesville is pointing out that in the People cover story on Michelle Obama, she's called Barack's "helpmate" no less than four times.