Dec 29, 2020
Taking a shower isn’t just good for your hygiene, but according to The Psychological Science Journal, they’re also good for your creativity. For many people, taking a shower provides a sort of zeigarnik effect or a brief respite from our tasks that helps to improve our mental focus. More men than women take daily...
Dec 26, 2020
Have you ever butt-dialed someone? The Dutch have a word for it, broekzakbellen. The English translation is “The pocket-dial giveth, and the pocket-dial taketh away. Butt-dialing someone can be an awkward or even embarrassing miskobble.
But it’s pretty funny when it happens to someone else. What’s a word for...
Nov 24, 2020
Since we’ve all been staying home a lot more, many of us have been spending more time in our slippers! According to Mark Forsyth's: A Day’s Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language, pantoffle is another word for a bedroom slipper. The word slipper dates all the way back to the mid 1400’s and there’s...
Oct 19, 2020
As much as I love Words You Never Heard, I enjoy a good word joke just as much. Did you hear about the oxymoron that walked into a bar? The silence was deafening. I dated an apostrophe once, but he was too possessive.
Having fun with words has always been a passion of mine and I say this with all jocoseriosity. ...
Sep 11, 2020
You may have heard about the fox that was caught stealing shoes from people’s porches and gardens in Germany.
Berlin resident Christian Meyer noticed that his expensive running shoes went missing from his porch and decided to investigate the theft. After checking with neighbors, he learned he was not the only one...