Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label words. Show all posts

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Pundits Anyone?

For reasons too complicated to go into I had reason to look up the word pundit. Did you know there were pundits in the late 17th century? It's a Sanskrit word dating from that time meaning, 'learned'. It came into popular use in the early 19th century as 'learned expert'.

Now as we all know, if you take the x out of expert what do you have? A drip under pressure....

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Bog not Blog

On Microsoft Word the first word that comes up as an alternative spelling for blog, which they deem to be a mistake, is 'bog'. Are they trying to tell me something?