Wordplay

Obscure & Fun

Top 12 Sophisticated Compliments

'Urbane,' 'incisive,' and other good things to be

17 of the Finest Words for Drinking

Try these out at your next happy hour

Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 3

Lovely, pointless, or both?

10 Better Ways to Say Underwear

Get your knickers in a twist

Words That are Their Own Opposites

Do I contradict myself?

Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 1

Some may be more useful than others.

What Is an Eggcorn?

And how did it get that name?

8 Words for Witchcraft and Black Magic

Witchcraft, dark magic, and more

Words For Things You Didn't Know Have Names, Vol. 4

Sitzmarks! Jarkmen!! Pronking!!!

9 Irregular and Unpredictable Words

Get your pencil ready

13 Unusually Long English Words

Pulchritudinous and many more

Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 2

More great words, many quite pointless.

7 Words for Bad Endings and Rough Situations

When it doesn't go as planned

Ten More Ways to Improve Your Vocabulary

Simple But Intelligent Word Choices, Vol. 2

15 Words for Creepy Creatures

Who are you calling a hodag? Time to find out!

10 Hella Good U.S. Regionalisms

We’re on a word tour, going each and every place with a mic in our hand

8 Delicious Words for Uncommon Fruits and Vegetables

When we go loquat, we also go salsify

10 Words for Uncommon Colors

Color names taken from paintings, flowers, fleas & more

'Arsy-Varsy,' and Other Snappy Reduplicatives

In the jinglejangle morning we’ll be chitchatting with these

13 Wonderful Words That You're Not Using (Yet)

Words as delightful as they are rare

Nine Obscure Beer-Related Words

Crack open a cold (or warm and eggy) one and enjoy

Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 4

More words, more beautiful, more useless

Words for Dictionary Supernerds

Know the language of the lexicographer
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