Websites: World Wide Words
(recent posts listed on Michael Quinion's World Wide Words) "From pillar to post; three new books on jargon; Onshore offshoring; Lorinery; Malapert; Chock-a-block; Approximeeting; An before words starting with h; Mociology; Ninnyhammer; Lickety-split; Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang; Stoozing; Cento; Roger’s Profanisaurus Rex; Dark tourism; Esculent; Double possessive; Bioart; Guy Fawkes night; Garbage in, garbage out; To a T; Nut-crack night; Gone for a Burton; Four books on language; Namby-pamby; Cockpit; Fanboys and Overdogs; Incalescence; To be in someone’s black books; Scutching; The Meaning of Tingo; Shrink; Talking For Britain; Spatterdashes; Word Origins and How We Know Them; Extraordinary rendition; Vinolent."
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