I went on a great trip this holiday weekend. Rented an adorable cottage, swam in the lake, met new people, etc. So I came home and thought, jokingly, about composing a novella about my trip that would illustrate my adventures and allow me to engage in some titular mocking of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love. [...]

Since I’m such a fervent lover of most words, it makes sense that there’d be a few I dislike, too. Intubate is one of these. It’s not in my list of the top five most detestable words of all time (I’ll eventually get to all of them, if not all at once), but it’s definitely [...]

This entry is inspired by its predecessor. After thinking for a while about the word überraschen, German for surprise, I started to wonder whether or not it was a compound word. Über, obviously, is a word. It turns out raschen is not a stand-alone, kind of like how people can be overwhelmed but not just [...]