Welcome to the website woven for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores. Carnivores eat meat; herbivores eat plants and vegetables; verbivores devour words. If you are heels over head (as well as head over heels) in love with words, tarry here a while to graze or, perhaps, feast on the English language. Ours is the only language in which you drive in a parkway and park in a driveway and your nose can run and your feet can smell.

 

 

So That’s What It Means! – $15

How did nautical words, such as scuttlebutt and the bitter end, sail into our language? How did two U,S, presidents help okay and teddy bear to start life? So That’s What It Means passionately and humorously explores the histories and mysteries of everyday language. Its companion volume, A Pleasury of Word & Phrase Origins, features many more illuminating stories.

 


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