Recently, while reading The Devil's Details, a book about the history of footnotes, I came across the following passage about The...

Contents: I. What's the Good Word? II. Dictionary News III. Timely Tidbits from the BLRL IV. New Additions to the BLRL...

A weekly roundup of articles and information about authors past and present, the craft of writing, books, reading, and more. I. Authors...

It was one of those events attended out of obligation. A fundraiser. My wife was involved in running the thing, so there was no way I was...

Yeah, dictionaries are all about words and meanings and etymologies and synonyms, but believe me when I say that some of the books in the...

I took precautions, I swear. In fact, it was the first thing I did when I went outside. I sprayed myself with some (apparently) shitty...

The following are a list of words and phrases that are "new," as in recently invented, or new to me, because I work from home and no...

Like a lot of people, I enjoy sleeping. Unfortunately, I suck at it, which is a round-about way of saying I don’t get enough of it. It’s...

I am aware that I tend to mention the same dictionaries over and over in these the posts that appears on this blog. To remedy that, I...

If I had walked by it on a sign or a poster, the headline, “How one notebook could replace all the productivity apps that have failed...

Hypochondria, or the belief that you’re ill, sick, or harboring some awful disease despite any evidence that to support it, is an...

Imagine you’re in your car, stuck at a red light. The fellow driving the car next to yours tilts his head back, opens his maw, and emits...

In his 1967 novel Fahrenheit 451 (the temperature at which books burn), Ray Bradbury imagines a dystopian society in which books are...

Greetings and salutations, fellow word lovers! It's Monday, so that means it's time for another Challenging Word of the Week! This week's...

Greetings Wordles! If it's Monday, then it's time for another installment of the Butter Lamb's Challenging Word of the Week! This week's...

Greetings word lovers! If it's Monday, then that means it's time for another Challenging Word of the Week! This week's word is...

It’s a dark night in a city that’s forgotten about its dictionaries, but on the first floor of a two-story house in Laurellia, one man is...

Greetings word nerds! To follow through on my earlier threat of featuring a "challenging" word each and every week on this blog, I offer...

As I note in the latest issue of the Butter Lamb News (#4) I really blew it in the "new additions to the Butter Lamb Reference Library"...

It’s a dark night in a city that’s forgotten about its dictionaries. But on the first floor of a two-story house in Laurellia, one man is...