How do you pronounce Eyjafjallajökull?Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano spews out consonants and vowels in its impossible-to-pronounce 16 letter name. Listen to a bunch of New Yorkers attempt to say it. The correct pronunciation is more like “Hey, ya fergot La Yogurt”.
Words
Why we need to stop saying the word ‘retarded’
We need a new civil rights movement, writes chairman of the Special Olympics, Timothy Shriver, and this time its to crush the rampant prejudices held against people with mental illness. ‘Retard’ shouldn’t be a hilarious insult for your friends.
Chillax? Manscaping? Enough with the portmanteaus, already!
Simply taking two words and cramming them together isn’t clever; it’s insufferable. But portmanteaus have become such an epidemic in the media, we’re under a constant barrage of stupidity.
Slacks, expresso and making love: words men should avoid
Esquire have released their list of the most overused and offensive words of 2009. The biggest culprits? Baby talk and sleazy speech. So no “tummy” and definitely no “panties”.
Jeremy Clarkson: nothing new under the sun, except…
In art and endeavour, doing something new is impossible. And yet, there is one place where we break daily from repetition’s clutches: when we speak we invent.
The most overused words in food writing
From “nosh” to “mouth feel”, the words that make reviewers sound like tossers and give Robert Sietseme the heebies.
