mystery Archives – A Way with Words

Like A Bad Penny

Posted by Grant Barrett on January 19, 2013 · 3 Comments

Why We Capitalize the Pronoun “I”

Posted by Grant Barrett on July 7, 2012 · Add Comment

“Tang” Menu Mystery Solved

Posted by Grant Barrett on May 7, 2012 · Add Comment

“Tang” Mystery is Solved!

Posted by Grant Barrett on May 7, 2012 · Add Comment

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Twacking around Duckish (minicast)

Posted by Grant Barrett on March 6, 2009 · Add Comment

Time for another linguistic mystery. Where would you be if you decided to go twacking around duckish, and then you came home and wrote about it in a scribbler?
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sleeper

Posted by Grant Barrett on February 10, 2009 · Add Comment

sleeper n.— «Other mystery words I found while perusing my great-grandfather’s papers were “orehano” and “sleeper.” “I haven’t seen any of Wise’s men lately and I have been helping myself to some of his Orehanos and have also caught several sleepers lately” was part of a letter written to Sanford on November 10th, 1912, by Brad’s [...]
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