Patsy Collins - Words about writing and writing about words

Ligneous means made of wood, or resembling wood, or just downright woody. Trees are ligneous , as are some ladders and signposts, pencils...

The word way has a lot of meanings. Way  more than I want to try squeezing into this post. It can mean a path or track, a physical or m...

Today's Wednesday word of the week comes from the wonderfully talented** Gary Davies*, of Maritime Photgraphic . He described this fer...

Nice generally means pleasant, kind or satisfactory. It can also be used to show fastidiousness, a subtle distinction or something requiri...

An idea is a concept or plan formed by mental effort, a mental impression, an intention, vague belief or fancy ... and what you need to st...

Philology is the science of language. Keen as I am on English, that doesn't make me a philologist , as I don't do anything scient...

A threshold is a point of entry, either real or metaphorical. Traditionally new brides were carried over the threshold of their marital ...

A censor is an official who studies books, films, plays and the like and suppresses any parts they feel shouldn't be made public. This ...

A word is said to rhyme with another when the sounds at the end are the same. Round rhymes with sound, time  rhymes  with mime (and rhyme...