During my college years, I alleviated the tedium of a summer job flipping burgers by concocting word games to entertain ...

It follows on from the better-known autobiographical passage—which we will discuss in three week's time in Lent 5. Paul uses ...

Nigerians have a penchant for creative neologisms – they have the special ability and innate tendency to create new words, new phrases, even new proverbs. The brilliant intellectual giant at the ...

It’s not that deep,” says my elder daughter as I foolishly ask her to explain why she is upset. Her innocent-sounding verbal ...

We all have our preferences for dealing with snow, and could debate them endlessly. When my parents retired here, I told them ...

In a recent survey of light intensity in Washington D.C., fictious surveyors determined that there was more light coming from ...

Attempting to classify the brand of lunacy or megalomania that besets Donald Trump may be great fun for academics and will undoubtedly yield several neologisms and a flood of learned articles. But it ...

Rousting SJP from campuses should be only a first step, with the more difficult act of ending faculty anti-semitism not yet even started.

Island Park students at Francis X. Hegarty Elementary School were treated to an unforgettable visit from acclaimed author and illustrator Douglas Florian on Feb. 26. Florian, best known for his ...

In December 2023, we published a revised edition of the Lexicon as an eBook, which includes updated entries for 104 of the most salient terms we have collected over the past 20 years. Please ...