All is not what it seams

All is not what it seams

Answering a random call for SEO help – actually it turned out to be canonical URL help – I happened to notice that the site in question referred so something as a “seemless way” to do something. My inner autocorrect went, “hmm” and...
Word of the Day: Cattywampus

Word of the Day: Cattywampus

When I first heard this word used – just last month – I thought it was spelled “kattywompous” perhaps in adjectival rhyme with “pompous.”  Alternate spellings are many but catawampus appears to be a close second. As words of the...
The Callipygian Explosion of 1835

The Callipygian Explosion of 1835

Let’s not dwell on why I was looking up the word callipygian, or, for that matter, why I checked the Google books ngram graph for it. Let us instead wonder, who, or maybe what, a century and change before Minaj, before Kardashian, even before Mix-a-Lot, inspired...