Finds
- dogleg Named for the angle in a dog's hind leg
- Chumocracy Rule by the people you already know
- The Book of Human Emotions Words for feelings English never got around to naming
- Solivagant A word for wandering alone, in writing since 1621
- gangway A word that says "way" twice
- Pismire The word for an ant, from urine and mire
- Bellwether The sheep that named the trend
- Expiscate To fish out — the verb for finding something by patient investigation
- Ettercap The Old English word for spider, still the best insult for a gossip
- Auspicate To begin an undertaking is, etymologically, to birdwatch first
- Gamy Six unrelated senses, one word — and no relation to '-gamy'
- Noodle One spelling, three unrelated word histories
- EzFurigana Add context-aware furigana to any Japanese text
- Merriam-Webster's Backward Index 315,000 dictionary entries typed in reverse for suffix lookup
- Cucumbers Were Once Called 'Cowcumbers' An archaic English name for cucumbers, still used in some 18th-century texts
- Smithfield match A 1703 phrase for marriage of convenience, from a London livestock market
- The Queue Silent-Letters Joke An etymology-flavoured pun about the spelling of 'queue'.
- Rake's progress A 1733 Hogarth series became a phrase for decline by folly
- The Least Spoken Language Joke A linguistic technicality.
- Samuel Goldwyn — "Let's have some new cliches." Samuel Goldwyn — Polish-born MGM founder famed for self-contradicting one-liners ('Goldwynisms') — on the perpetual demand for fresh language.